4 UPS planes isolated for threats

[FO 4 Life]

HILADELPHIA (CBS) – Authorities have isolated two UPS cargo planes at Philadelphia International Airport and a plane in Newark, New Jersey following a report of suspicious packages on the planes. A fourth plane has also been detained in England.

Local and federal authorities are investigating a suspicious package aboard a UPS plane that landed at Philadelphia International Airport at about 9 a.m. from Paris, France. The second plane, from Cologne, Germany, was isolated near the UPS terminal. The plane from Germany landed in Philadelphia at about 8 a.m. and was scheduled to depart at 10:30 a.m. for Louisville, Kentucky. At about the same time, another plane landed safely at Newark International Airport and was isolated, and a fourth plane was detained in Birmingham, England.

 

[Dornier 335]

I wonder if there is any connection between these IEDs and the UPS crash a few weeks ago....

 

[ultrarunner]

With every pax having to be searched, it's long overdue that every box be checked. Every one!

 

[belchfire]

With every pax having to be searched, it's long overdue that every box be checked. Every one!

Uh, that's going to kind of be nasty work for the junior guys...

:laugh:

 

[hvydriver]

I wonder if there is any connection between these IEDs and the UPS crash a few weeks ago....

It would seem perhaps there is...

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