Hiflyer From United States of America, joined Nov 2004, 2118 posts, RR: 4 Posted (5 years 7 months 3 weeks 4 days 23 hours ago) and read 1195 times:
Airport Evacuated After Suspicious Device Found in Baggage Screening
Eugene, Ore. -- Thursday morning Eugene Police responded to a call of a suspicious device found during routine screening of baggage at the Eugene Airport. The terminal has been evacuated and roads into the airport are closed at this time. The Explosives Disposal Unit has arrived and is investigating. http://www.kezi.com/content/contentID/17641
Eugene Airport is served by five air carriers: US Airways Express, Horizon Air, Delta Connection, United Express and Allegiant Air.....from the airport website.
Brick From United States of America, joined Aug 1999, 1571 posts, RR: 8 Reply 1, posted (5 years 7 months 3 weeks 4 days 23 hours ago) and read 1174 times:
They are holding a SkyWest Airlines flight that arrived Denver from Eugene in a "remote" area of the airport right now until the aircraft is checked out. The passengers have been bussed to the terminal, but their luggage stays on the aircraft. This seems an over reaction by folks in Denver if you ask me...
Hiflyer From United States of America, joined Nov 2004, 2118 posts, RR: 4 Reply 3, posted (5 years 7 months 3 weeks 4 days 16 hours ago) and read 1048 times:
Huh? at the Denver airport? rutroh scooby.
A piece of steel pipe wrapped in electrician’s tape prompted the evacuation
and closure of the Eugene Airport on Thursday. The airport has reopened.
The item was found in a passenger’s checked baggage. Eugene police said it
was not an actual bomb, but closely resembled one. The passenger was being
questioned by FBI agents at the Denver airport.
DavidByrne From New Zealand, joined Sep 2007, 1526 posts, RR: 2 Reply 4, posted (5 years 7 months 3 weeks 4 days 12 hours ago) and read 999 times:
Quoting Brick (Reply 1): They are holding a SkyWest Airlines flight that arrived Denver from Eugene in a "remote" area of the airport right now until the aircraft is checked out. The passengers have been bussed to the terminal, but their luggage stays on the aircraft. This seems an over reaction by folks in Denver if you ask me...
Quoting Hiflyer (Reply 3): A piece of steel pipe wrapped in electrician's tape prompted the evacuation
and closure of the Eugene Airport on Thursday. The airport has reopened.
The item was found in a passenger's checked baggage. Eugene police said it
was not an actual bomb, but closely resembled one. The passenger was being
questioned by FBI agents at the Denver airport.
Huh? Doesn't sound like an over-reaction to me. If there was any suspicion of a pipe bomb I'd expect evacuation of the plane and for the plane to be parked in a remote area - and for the airport to be closed until things were properly checked out. Imagine what people would be saying if it was a bomb and those steps had not been taken.
Sometimes I think that A-netters make pronouncements based on very skimpy information . . .
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Hiflyer From United States of America, joined Nov 2004, 2118 posts, RR: 4 Reply 5, posted (5 years 7 months 3 weeks 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 946 times:
Quoting DavidByrne (Reply 4): Sometimes I think that A-netters make pronouncements based on very skimpy information . . .
Agreed.....but I remember knowing it all when I was a teenager...grin.....with age comes wiseness and mortgages...
I wonder if the TSA was more anxious due to the recent extradition( earlier this week) from Europe of a most wanted for running muslim terrorist camps in Oregon in the late 90's.....??
Bok269 From United States of America, joined May 2007, 2105 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (5 years 7 months 3 weeks 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 889 times:
Quoting AF340 (Reply 2): I seriously doubt Eugene would be the scene of an attack anyway
On that fateful day, two hijackers on Flight 11 first went through PWM. While the CRJ may not have been a target, a larger aircraft could have.
As others have stated, I completely agree with the extra inspections.
Doug_Or From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 3158 posts, RR: 4 Reply 8, posted (5 years 7 months 3 weeks 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 872 times:
He is refering to Abdulaziz al-Omari and Mohamed Atta al Sayed who flew from PWM to BOS on the morning of 9-11-01. They hijacked AA11 from BOS and crashed it in to the north tower of the WTC.
More to the point, I'm very confused about why nothing happened until they got to DEN? Was the suspicous package bound for another flight? Was it on the SkyWest flight?
Bok269 From United States of America, joined May 2007, 2105 posts, RR: 0 Reply 9, posted (5 years 7 months 3 weeks 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 866 times:
Quoting LTU932 (Reply 7): PWM isn't in Oregon, PDX is. Or did you mean PDX?
No I meant PWM. I wasn't comparing the two geographically, rather that they are both relatively smaller (I realize PWM isn't as small as EUG) and that EUG is as likely to be a starting point for a terrorist attack as anywhere else.
LTU932 From Germany, joined Jan 2006, 13864 posts, RR: 51 Reply 11, posted (5 years 7 months 3 weeks 3 days 17 hours ago) and read 833 times:
Quoting Bok269 (Reply 9): No I meant PWM. I wasn't comparing the two geographically, rather that they are both relatively smaller (I realize PWM isn't as small as EUG) and that EUG is as likely to be a starting point for a terrorist attack as anywhere else.
OK, now I understood. My apologies for the misunderstanding.
Sea2Pdx From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 66 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (5 years 7 months 3 weeks 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 704 times:
Quoting Doug_Or (Reply 8): I'm very confused about why nothing happened until they got to DEN? Was the suspicous package bound for another flight? Was it on the SkyWest flight?
The item was left behind in Eugene and the passenger was allowed to board their flight to Denver (6am departure). I flew out on a 630am flight that morning with no issues. Find out that this was made an issue *after the fact* and only then did the airport get dumped and bomb squad called. The airport closure resulted in the cancellation of one flight. To reiterate, an issue was made of all of this *after* the passenger boarded his flight and it departed. Seems things didn't quite go the way they should have here.
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