Statement On A Suspicious Item Identified At Miami International Airport
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September 26, 2006
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WASHINGTON, D.C – At approx 12:10 p.m., Transportation Security Officers at Miami International Airport identified a suspicious item in a passenger’s checked baggage.
The bag was located inside an explosive detection system, or EDS, located in Concourse G. The Miami-Dade bomb squad responded at 12:58 p.m., and established a safe zone around the bag that included Concourses F and G security checkpoints.
At 1:07 p.m. the bomb squad made the determination that the item did not pose a threat to aviation and operations at Miami returned to normal.
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