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Thursday, October 7, 2010

Strange baggage handler at airport causes plane evac

Several local and state agencies are investigating an unusual incident at the Philadelphia International Airport this morning.

According to police, three baggage handlers were loading luggage on to a flight bound for Bermuda around 10:56 a.m. when two of the handlers noticed a third was not wearing an identification badge. When questioned about it, the third man took off and has yet to be found by police.

The plane was towed to a remote area of the runway, the passengers were unloaded and all the of the baggage is in the process of being inspected, police said.

All other flights are reported to be running normally.

Investigating agencies include the Philadelphia Police, the F.B.I. and Homeland Security.

 
Posted by Stephanie Farr @ 12:24 PM  Permalink | 2 comments
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:57 PM, 10/07/2010
    an unemployed guy just trying to stay busy...???
    — runtheballAndy
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 8:49 AM, 10/08/2010
    AND THE BOMB DISPOSAL UNIT.
    — PPDWIFE


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Dana DiFilippo has covered murder, mayhem and miscellany at the Daily News since 2000. She grew up in Delaware County and studied journalism and photography at Penn State University. E-mail tips to difilid@phillynews.com.

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Stephanie Farr has been reporting for the Daily News since 2007, covering everything from gay porn stars who entered the burglary business to moon trees, skinheads, murders and naked bike rides. She covers crime, both in the city and suburbs, and keeps clippings of bizarre Associated Press articles. Her favorite this year was the story about the drunk in Punxsutawney who gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a dead opossum. E-mail tips to farrs@phillynews.com.

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Phillip Lucas joined the Daily News crime team in 2011. He grew up on the mean streets of Seattle and studied journalism and psychology at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Before landing in the City of Brotherly Love, Phillip was a reporter for The News Journal in Wilmington, Del. Email tips to lucasp@phillynews.com.

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Morgan Zalot is the newest crime reporter at the Daily News, starting in 2011 after interning at the paper twice as a Temple University journalism student. In her past stints at the DN, she covered just about everything, from drunken Phillies fans to a barber shop in a high school to a grisly murder-suicide. She’s a born-and-raised Philly girl who grew up in the Northeast. E-mail tips to zalotm@philly.com.

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