An alleged bomb menace aboard a Frontier Airways flight prompted authorities to evacuate a Florida airport Tuesday.
A person aboard the flight headed from Palm Seaside to Philadelphia made a comment about an explosive, inflicting the evacuation of Concourse C at Palm Seaside Worldwide Airport, Palm Seaside County Sheriff’s spokesperson Teri Barbera informed Fox Information Digital.
“Apparently, a passenger made an utterance that there was a bomb in his bag(s),” Barbera mentioned in a press release.
The one that made the menace was arrested by the FBI, she mentioned.
The realm was evacuated so bomb-detection canine and the sheriff’s bomb squad and the FBI might examine two passenger luggage. Noting was discovered.
Six flights have been delayed consequently, WFLX-TV reported.
Those that acquired off the aircraft have been moved to different airport concourses through the search, the information report mentioned. Frontier Airways deferred any touch upon the matter to the sheriff’s workplace. Concourse C reopened simply after 8 p.m.