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"Boy Takes Joyride on Airport Conveyor Belt"

Tuesday, July 27, 2004

Boy Takes Joyride on Airport Conveyor Belt

  
OSLO (Reuters) - A four-year-old boy caused chaos at a Norwegian airport
this week when he hopped aboard a luggage conveyor belt as if it were a
merry-go-round. 

Ole Tobias crawled onto the belt next to an unmanned check-in desk
Monday, continued unnoticed through a trapdoor along with bags and
suitcases about his size, then passed through an X-ray scanner and into
the luggage hall. 

"It was just a moment of inattention and Ole Tobias disappeared," his
mother, Ingvild Aakervik, told NRK radio on Tuesday. "I panicked and
made the entire airport search for him." 

She said Ole Tobias was not hurt and seemed to have enjoyed the ride,
which ended abruptly when staff at the Aalesund Vigra airport in central
Norway noticed the boy in the X-ray machine and pressed the alarm
button. 


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