A passenger who flew into LaGuardia Airport on Sunday night was questioned by FBI agents after allegedly boarding the flight with an explosive device in his possession, CBS 2 has learned.A few years ago I flew to Texas for the annual Gospel Music Festival and was wearing a coat I hadn't used much. As we were walking through the Dallas airport on my way to my connecting flight I reached into the pocket and discovered a container of Mace. I hadn't realized it was in there, and it didn't set off the metal detectors in Orange County. It was legal to carry around back in Orange County, but not legal to carry on an airliner. I figured it was probably not a good idea to keep tempting fate with that in my pocket, so I dumped it in the next DFW trash can I came to.
Officials confirmed Monday that a crew member on board Piedmont Airlines flight 4126, originating from Baltimore Washington International Airport, was cleaning the plane after it landed in New York around 7:30 p.m. when he found a large firecracker-like device wedged between two seats. Port Authority officials contacted FBI agents, and the passenger from that seat location, identified as 67-year-old Thomas Ouelette, of Bonita Springs, Fla., was tracked down and taken into custody.
Ouelette was planning on taking a connecting flight to Fort Myers, Fla. from New York.
Authorities did not release details on the kind of device discovered other than saying it was a 4-inch-long, three-quarter-inch-wide explosive pyrotechnic.
These things can happen.
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Yeah, but two firecracker type things? Give me a break! There are going to be terrorists trying to do a lot of things because they know they can get away with it. I see a lot more terrorist attacks coming to America.
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