JFK Delta Terminal Evacuated After Security Breach

[Matt Molnar]

JFK areas evacuated after breach

Published: Apr 5, 2007
Modified: Apr 5, 2007 11:06 PM

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK (AP) A man breached security at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Thursday, forcing parts of two terminals to be evacuated, authorities said.

The man, who had not been found by Thursday evening, circumvented security at Terminal 3 at about 4:15 p.m., the Transportation Security Administration said in an announcement.

When TSA workers were unable to immediately locate the man, they called on officials with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the airport, to help evacuate the secure parts of Terminals 2 and 3.

Authorities were not sure if the man was still in the airport.

All passengers went through security a second time before normal operations resumed, Port Authority spokesman Alan Hicks said. More than a dozen flights were delayed, some for hours, he said.

:arrow: A writer from Wired was in the terminal and gave a more detailed description of the evacuation: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/0 ... rity_.html

[Deltafan2006]

I worked in terminal 3 and at first the problem begin at 430pm when they decide to closed the check in, two hours later, everybody got evacuate from terminal 3, there were planning to closed the entire airport beacause of one man that cross with their briefcase at the check point without checking in.