"Small package explodes at Pittsburgh airport"

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Small package explodes at Pittsburgh airport 
By Cary Snyder
The Beaver County (PA) Times


Findlay Twp. - Police and transportation officials are investigating what
caused a small package to explode around 9 a.m. Thursday inside a news and
gift store in the airside terminal at Pittsburgh International Airport.
  
A customer, thought to be a passenger waiting for a departing flight, left
the package on the store counter, airport spokeswoman JoAnn Jenny said.

The incident was initially reported as a firecracker going off, but Jenny
said Thursday night that Allegheny County police and Transportation and
Security Administration officials had not determined what caused the bang.

No one was injured and the store was temporarily closed while police
searched the area.

Jenny did not know whether police located the customer who left the package.
Without knowing what caused the bang, she could not say whether a prohibited
item made it through the security checkpoint.

In an unrelated incident around the same time, Jenny said a sprinkler system
temporarily malfunctioned in the landside terminal.

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