Flight Lands In Newark After Dynamite Found In Luggage

[im10ashus]

WHY wasn't this luggage checked BEFORE it was allowed onto the plane.

A college student's checked luggage on a Continental Airlines flight to Houston from Argentina on Friday contained dynamite, and federal authorities are investigating why he had it and what he intended to do with it, an FBI spokeswoman said.

"Certainly we are doing a thorough investigation and trying to find out what this individual's intention was in trying to bring dynamite here," FBI spokeswoman Shauna Dunlap said Friday.

The dynamite was found during a luggage search in a federal inspection station at Bush Intercontinental Airport shortly after Continental Flight 52 landed about 6 a.m. Friday. Marlene McClinton, spokeswoman for the Houston Airport System, said a bomb-sniffing dog "had a hit" on explosive residue during a further search.

She said Customs and Border Patrol and the FBI shut down the customs area and began questioning the passenger who had the luggage. The identity and age of the passenger, a man, were not released.

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http://www.wnbc.com/news/9738887/detail.html

[stop the bleeding]

1. weird n/t

[babylonsister]

2. Link, please? nt

[im10ashus]

7. Oops!

Sorry. It's fixed.

:hide:

[babylonsister]

16. Thanks! I wanted to send this on which is why I needed the linkie.

:hi:

[woodsprite]

3. NakedAir could be a real successful business venture. n/t

[aceman2373]

4. Wow....

Maybe the airport people are doing something good. Looks like they are on the ball, or at least starting to be. Maybe the new security precautions are working...

[unpossibles]

11. I would hope so and that it wasn't just a fluke

I hate to say it, but I am also skeptical - why dynamite and did he have any way of setting it off?

I guess because I knew someone in college who had an alarmclock that looked like a bundle of dynamite, and he got arrested, then later cleared after they discovered it was not real. The initial arrest was on the TV, the correction and release were not.

[rinsd]

5. WTF? Dynamite? Who uses dynamite anymore? Do we even mfg it?

[slackmaster]

19. Dynamite still works just fine

It has many industrial and mining operations.

It's safe to handle and predictable.

[rinsd]

30. I thought Dow stopped making it.

Because other explosives had come out that were just as or more stable and cheaper.

Stupid history channel! ;-)

[slackmaster]

32. I saw a show on the Hitler Channel recently that discussed dynamite

As well as other explosives. I find the subject fascinating.

I think you are thinking of DuPont BTW. Several companies still make nytroglycerin-based explosives.

[rinsd]

40. Ahhhhhhhh...

Thanks.

You're a fountain of info as usual slack.

[OwnedByFerrets]

47. " I find the subject fascinating"

Well your on a watch list now. :eyes: :rofl:

[slackmaster]

48. As a Federal Firearms License holder who has worked for banks

And had a military security clearance, I'm already on plenty of watch lists.

[Ravy]

6. Bush Intercontinental is in Houston, not Newark (n/t)

[Sparkly]

8. They found it AFTER the plane landed?

:shrug:

[AngryAmish]

23. International flight

Blame Argentina

[TallahasseeGrannie]

9. Why would anyone carry dynamite??

[Dr.Phool]

12. Probably a freeper

He didn't have enough brains to blow his nose, and you know.

[slackmaster]

24. You carry dynamite to get it from one place to another

Of course it turns out there was no actual dynamite involved in this incident.

:eyes:

[TallahasseeGrannie]

25. LOL

oh gosh, I need to go home...

[ThomWV]

50. Because neither FedEx nor UPS Will Ship It

Not even by over night express ....

[Ignacio Upton]

10. Here we go again.......

I expect to see stories like this hyped until November.

[patdem]

13. Might be something more like an M-80, it looks like dynamite if

one is not familiar with what dynamite looks like? Just askin??

[Selatius]

14. We are not safe flying if they can overlook DYNAMITE in luggage.

This is happening almost five years after 9/11.

[slackmaster]

20. Without a detonator, dynamite is very stable and safe

Unless it has been stored improperly.

[Selatius]

26. That's completely beside the point.

If he could get that on board--through freaking luggage no less--then how much harder would it be for somebody with truly ill intentions to attach a detonator and timer and repeat Pan-Am Flight 103 tragedy when it blew up over Lockerbie, Scotland?

[slackmaster]

27. But he DIDN'T take any dynamite on board.

Read the article carefully.

[Selatius]

28. Still beside the point.

The fact that any explosive got on board the plane at all is worry enough.

[slackmaster]

29. There wasn't any explosive on board

Explosive residue != explosive. You have to have a certain amount of any explosive in order to produce an explosion at all.

If you are arguing that the residue should have been detected before the flight took off, direct your ire toward Argentina.

[im10ashus]

33. It's such a poorly written article, and misleading, in fact.

It states:

The dynamite was found during a luggage search in a federal inspection station at Bush Intercontinental Airport shortly after Continental Flight 52 landed about 6 a.m. Friday. Marlene McClinton, spokeswoman for the Houston Airport System, said a bomb-sniffing dog "had a hit" on explosive residue during a further search.

Then follows it up with:

Houston Fire Department Assistant Chief Omero Longoria said the man told fire officials that he works in mining and often handles explosives, so that would explain the residue. He said federal officials were investigating whether the man's explanation was true, and the fire department's role in the probe ended upon determining the man's bag did not contain a bomb.

So which is it, federal inspectors? Dynamite or residue?

[slackmaster]

36. Yeah, no Pulitzer prize for the clowns who wrote and edited it

:nuke:

[Aristus]

15. On the plus side, passengers taking the same flight were relieved

of their shampoo and nail polish remover before boarding.

[dipsydoodle]

17. Don't suppose it was Miss

Dynamite ?

[Sparkly]

18. Just read it -- it was RESIDUE....

"Houston Fire Department Assistant Chief Omero Longoria said the man told fire officials that he works in mining and often handles explosives, so that would explain the residue. He said federal officials were investigating whether the man's explanation was true, and the fire department's role in the probe ended upon determining the man's bag did not contain a bomb."

:eyes:

And apparently they found it AFTER the plane landed in Houston, coming in from Argentina. It went on to Newark, but after landing there they decided to do "additional security screening."

In other words, a whole lot of nonsense!!

[slackmaster]

21. D'Oh!!!

:argh:

[im10ashus]

22. Insanity ensues.

Who's running security? The Keystone Cops?

[dipsydoodle]

38. Yes

[EFerrari]

34. Two scoops of fear with some dread sprinkles. n/t

[im10ashus]

39. Truly.

And the article states at one point that it was dynamite and then later says it was only residue. I'm telling ya, the Keystone Cops are running the airport security.

[EFerrari]

42. At least they only work security and not piano moving.

[im10ashus]

54. Laurel and Hardy would be a welcome relief.

:rofl:

[leftchick]

49. on the upside

the all terra channels got to have TERRA TERRA IN THE SKYS all day on TV for the all TERRA Administration!

:grr:

[yellowcanine]

31. Why the fuss? It wasn't shampoo in his hand luggage, after all.

[auburngrad82]

35. So how exactly do they search the luggage while in flight?

I don't believe this shit for a minute. The "terrorist" reports get more and more outrageous every day. And there are literally two or three every day. It's probably going to stay this way until Election Day. That could work to our advantage. People will eventually tired of being scared by the GOP. If they over do it they lose the effect.



Liberal bumper stickers

[slackmaster]

37. They didn't

The article is very poorly written.

The luggage was probably being screened for illegal drugs by a multi-purpose dog.

[slackmaster]

41. Photo of the passenger who had the residue in his luggage

[im10ashus]

43. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

44. Ow...

There's now grapefruit juice in my sinuses...

[AX10]

45. If this is so, then why was the baggage allowed onto the plane?

[slackmaster]

46. Argentine authorities must not have used bomb-sniffing dogs

:shrug:

This is really a tempest in a teapot. The passengers and crew of the plane were never in any danger from the residue on someone's luggage.

[slackmaster]

51. Article has been updated, now says "a stick" of dynamite

http://www.wnbc.com/news/9738887/detail.html

Simplest explanation: DUMBASS.

[im10ashus]

53. No longer just residue.

Tell me again who is in charge?

[slackmaster]

55. The government of Argentina

Would be responsible for screening baggage leaving Buenos Aires.

[pitohui]

52. they're just making up crap right and left aren't they?

absolutely no excuse to be reporting that dynamite was found when no dynamite was found, absolutely none