war on the unexpected – Noise https://noise.getoto.net The collective thoughts of the interwebz Tue, 12 Oct 2021 15:04:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 Airline Passenger Mistakes Vintage Camera for a Bomb https://noise.getoto.net/2021/10/12/airline-passenger-mistakes-vintage-camera-for-a-bomb/ Tue, 12 Oct 2021 15:04:20 +0000 https://www.schneier.com/?p=63752 I feel sorry for the accused:

The “security incident” that forced a New-York bound flight to make an emergency landing at LaGuardia Airport on Saturday turned out to be a misunderstanding — after an airline passenger mistook another traveler’s camera for a bomb, sources said Sunday.

American Airlines Flight 4817 from Indianapolis — operated by Republic Airways — made an emergency landing at LaGuardia just after 3 p.m., and authorities took a suspicious passenger into custody for several hours.

It turns out the would-be “bomber” was just a vintage camera aficionado and the woman who reported him made a mistake, sources said...

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