Big scare at Logan International Airport in Boston (USA) this Sunday.
A terminal had to be evacuated after a suspicious item was found in luggage,
Phonandroid
reports .
A bomb threat was triggered and a team of deminers even intervened.
After more than an hour of checking, it turned out that the suspicious object in question was… an old PlayStation console.
Evacuating everyone from Terminal A @BostonLogan #loganairport pic.twitter.com/z57yIOdCJW
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Many flight delays
After the bomb threat was triggered, panic engulfed the airport.
“I saw, like in the movies, people running, screaming,” a passenger told an American channel after the panic.
The resolution of the situation took an hour, causing numerous delays on flights departing from this airport.
According to the investigation that followed, it was therefore the old PlayStation that caused all this trouble.
"The condition of the console caused anomalies in the image produced when it was X-rayed," police said in a statement.
“[This] caused concern among screening officers.
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