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  • Suspicious comments ground flight at Lynchburg Regional Airport

    06/01/2009 3:03:53 AM PDT · by Cindy · 8 replies · 909+ views
    LYNCHBURG NEWS & ADVANCE/WSLS ^ | Updated Monday, June 1 at 12:15 a.m. | By Chris Dumond, Lynchburg News & Advance
    SNIPPET: "U.S. Airways flight 4423 was supposed to leave Lynchburg for Charlotte around 2:30 p.m., Airport Director Mark Courtney said. Instead, it was delayed for nearly three hours while Transportation Security Administration workers and local law enforcement made sure it was safe to fly. Campbell County Sheriff’s Office Capt. Kevin Schmitt said a 23-year-old man was overheard on his mobile phone making the comments while he was standing in the airport lobby. “He was overheard by a TSA official making the comment that the plane wouldn’t make it to Charlotte — that it would fall out of the sky,” Schmitt...