Munich airport closed after bomb scare

Jerusalem Post
January 20, 2010

Part of Munich airport was closed Wednesday as officials searched for a man whose laptop had triggered an alert for possible explosives at a security checkpoint, police said.

Federal police said they ordered part of the airport’s Terminal 2 closed to look for the man following the incident at 3:30 p.m. (1430 GMT, 9:30 a.m. EST).

An airport security instrument alerted officials to possible explosives as the man’s laptop was being checked, police said. He then hastily left the scene carrying the computer into the terminal.

The alert “doesn’t necessary have to mean that there were explosives inside,” federal police spokesman Albert Poerschke told the German news agency DAPD.

Officials wanted to check the computer again, but the man left. “We believe that the man didn’t realize there was more to come,” Poerschke said.

Airport spokesman Florian Engert said a dozen aircraft were unable to depart.

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