Airline Passenger Mistakes Vintage Camera for a Bomb

[2021-10-13 20:46:32 UTC; Update: Corrected story link.--martyb]

owl writes:

I feel sorry for the accused.

Bomb scare that led to emergency landing at LaGuardia Airport was just passenger adjusting camera: sources:

The security incident" that forced a New-York bound flight to make an emergency landing at LaGuardia Airport on Saturday turned out to be a misunderstanding - after an airline passenger mistook another traveler's camera for a bomb, sources said Sunday.

American Airlines Flight 4817 from Indianapolis - operated by Republic Airways - made an emergency landing at LaGuardia just after 3 p.m., and authorities took a suspicious passenger into custody for several hours.

It turns out the would-be bomber" was just a vintage camera aficionado and the woman who reported him made a mistake, sources said.

Why in the world was the passenger in custody for several hours"? They didn't do anything wrong.

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