The bag did contain a powdery substance, but a hazmat team deemed it non-hazardous, said Pasquale DiFulco, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the airport.
The terminals, among eight in use at the airport, serve several international airlines, including Air France, plus Continental and Delta airlines.
Authorities clear suspicious bag found at JFK parking lot
Five hours after getting reports of a suspicious bag at a John F. Kennedy International Airport parking lot, investigators determined the unattended package was not a threat and authorities began allowing vehicular traffic back to the area early Friday.
The bag did contain a powdery substance, but a hazmat team deemed it non-hazardous, said Pasquale DiFulco, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the airport.
The terminals, among eight in use at the airport, serve several international airlines, including Air France, plus Continental and Delta airlines.
DiFulco did not have immediate information on whether five airline departure delays at Terminal 1 had been resolved Friday morning and said he was not sure what type of bag was involved.
The clearances came around 1 a.m. (0500 GMT) Friday, and authorities began allowing vehicular traffic back toward Terminals 1, 2 and 3, which sat across the parking lot. Public transportation also resumed service to the area. And people who had been forced to remain in Terminal 1 were allowed to come and go.
stuck in traffic
Explains why we were in traffic last night on the way to the terminals…
me
explains why my plane was stuck on the runway for 6 hours
couldent handle it better?
and the excuse is "security". security in the us airports do nothing to refrein criminals and terrorists who are smarter then them. all they do is dress up monkeys in suits and ties and equip them with pat-down wands in order to harrase, degrade and impose the gratest disrespect for fellow human beings. and for their inability to handle a "suspicious" bag in an efficiant manner, whole planeloads of poeple and highways of trafic are delayd. pothetic.
me
TO: couldent handle it better?
"all they do is dress up monkeys in suits "
who do u think u are anyway to be talking like that???!!!
and on a public website? im shocked!!!
couldent handle it better?
To "me"
Please refer to its definition according to Merriam-Webster:
1: a nonhuman primate mammal with the exception usually of the lemurs and tarsiers; especially: any of the smaller longer-tailed catarrhine or platyrrhine primates as contrasted with the apes
2 a: a person resembling a monkey
Now according to both the first and second definition, those beings at the security gates are entitled to its name since there is nothing human about them. And even if it were resembling the humans figure it was defiantly resembling the animals behavior.
for lack of better term, and so long as that being is what it is, I prefer to name it, Biloshon Nikeeya, Monkey.