Explosion in L.A

[Fly Rod]

Two explosions rock section of L.A. airport!!!<br /><br />They say that the whole airport has been closed!!!<br /><br />Anybody from Calif. know anymore ????

 

[LadyFish]

Re: Explosion in L.A

I found this on FoxNews.<br /><br />Saturday, September 04, 2004<br /><br />LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles International Airport (search) was shut down early Saturday because of a possible security breach and a separate incident at an international terminal security screening station, an airport spokesman said.<br /><br />No information was immediately available on the incident at Tom Bradley International Terminal (search), airport spokesman Harold Johnson said.<br /><br />Officials also did not explain the possible security breach that shut down terminals 6, 7 and 8. The terminals are connected.<br /><br />Flights were not being allowed to depart, but inbound flights were being allowed to land, said Paul Turk, spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration (search). Passengers were not taken off the planes.<br /><br />Traffic was being diverted from the airport.

 

[Boomyal]

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No explosions are being reported. It apparently involves luggage that cannot be matched to an owner/traveler. But a huge inconvenience for Labor Day travelers.

 

[Fly Rod]

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Fox News now is saying no explosions!!!!<br /><br />They 1st reported 2 and several people injured!!!<br /><br />Can't they get it right????

 

[LadyFish]

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Maybe in order to be fair and balanced they have to have two stories.

 

[Bassy]

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Here is all I could get from my local paper. I couldn't get into LA Times, so here you go.<br />Bassy<br /><br /> http://www.fresnobee.com/state_wire/story/9093286p-9992771c.html <br /><br />LOS ANGELES (AP) - Four terminals at Los Angeles <br />International Airport were shut down for about three hours early <br />Saturday after a passenger bypassed security at one terminal and a <br />flashlight battery exploded during screening at another, authorities<br /> said. <br />Several people suffered minor injuries.<br />The scare at the international terminal shortly after 8 a.m. <br />came when a flashlight battery in checked luggage exploded as the bag<br /> was being hand-searched by a TSA worker, Von Walter said. She said the blast<br /> appeared to have been caused by old batteries, not a bomb.<br /><br />The TSA worker suffered swollen hands and was taken to a hospital,<br /> Von Walter said. Several other people complained of ringing in their <br />ears and the passenger whose bag was being screened at the time was <br />being questioned. About half an hour earlier, security workers reported<br /> that a passenger bypassed security at United Airlines' Terminal 8 by <br />running up a down escalator, Von Walter said. Authorities ordered the <br />evacuation of terminals 6, 7 and 8, which are connected, in order to <br />re-screen passengers.<br /><br />The shutdown Saturday followed a bomb scare Friday at Ontario International <br />Airport that prompted the evacuation of 1,000 people for two hours. The <br />suspicious bag that caused it turned out to contain only cosmetics, officials said.<br />Authorities are especially wary of terrorism at Los Angeles International Airport, <br />among the world's busiest. It has twice been targeted for attacks - a foiled bomb plot <br />planned for around New Year's Day 2000, and a shooting at a check-in counter that<br /> left three dead on July 4, 2002.