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| Flashlight device prompts brief evacuation at San Jose airport | |
| 2006-09-04 | |
| About 100 people were evacuated from a terminal at Mineta San Jose International Airport Saturday morning after screeners discovered a suspicious but ultimately harmless electrical device in a traveler's carry-on luggage. According to airport spokesman Rich Dressler, the south concourse of Terminal C was evacuated for about a half hour starting about 8 a.m. Saturday. Screeners had found two flashlights hooked together through wiring during in a routine X-ray of a man's carry-on bags. Authorities decided the device was suspicious enough to warrant evacuating a portion of the terminal. Travelers waited on the secured tarmac of the terminal while police and transportation authorities inspected the flashlights and interviewed the traveler. After the device was found to be harmless, people were allowed back into the terminal. San Jose police cited the man traveling with the wire-rigged flashlights. No flights were affected by the evacuation.
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