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Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Mystery package grounds flight

Mystery package grounds flight
Passengers held 12 hours in lock-up
Parcel contained tools, no bomb
Sep. 20, 2006. 06:09 AM
JIM WILKES
STAFF REPORTER


A planeload of Air India passengers spent nearly 12 hours in an airport security lock-up yesterday after the discovery of a suspicious package wrapped in black tape forced their overseas flight to return to Toronto.

Passengers said they were given little information about why Flight 188 — bound for Birmingham, England and Amritsar, India on Monday night — was turned around near Montreal when the package was found on the floor of a washroom.

Eleven crew members and 149 passengers were evacuated from the Boeing 777 jet when it reached Pearson International Airport at about 11:25 p.m. A Peel police robot detonated the package early yesterday but found nothing suspicious or threatening inside, only small tools that police said were "uniquely packaged." [...]

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