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Bomb joke backfires, grounds plane (NYC to Fort Lauderdale)
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| September 14, 2002 Posted: 6:36 PM EDT (2236 GMT)
| CNN Producer Laura Dolan contributed to this report.
Posted on 09/14/2002 5:40:15 PM PDT by weegee
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:01:16 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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NEW YORK (CNN) -- A Delta Air Lines flight about to leave LaGuardia Airport for Fort Lauderdale Saturday afternoon returned to the gate after a passenger told a flight attendant he had brought a bomb onboard, police said.
Passengers were taken off the plane and the man was arrested, said Port Authority Police Sgt. John O'Donnell. A search of the man's luggage and the plane, with at least one bomb-sniffing dog, turned up no explosives, O'Donnell said.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Florida; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bombhoax; deltaairlines; idiot; laguardia; terroristthreat
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To: nimc
Now that is a bomb joke. How do you know when a bomb joke is NOT funny?
When it "bombs".
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09/17/2002 8:35:58 AM PDT
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cinFLA
To: ladyinred
I apsolutely support checking out every threat too, but I have to wonder if they feel a bit silly blowing up brown paper bags because they are reluctant to look inside.... But on the other hand, I am not in their shoes, so I should not profess to know which chances they should take.
To: boris; syriacus
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10/17/2002 12:36:29 PM PDT
by
TexRef
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