On Thursday, on a plane going from LaGuardia to Louisville, there was a bomb scare. A Jewish teen pulled out some sort of box, called a tefillin, and passengers mistaked it for a bomb, so the plane route was diverted. The plane ended up landing in Philadelphia, surrounded by the Bomb Squad and Homeland Security. Well, they removed the teen from the plane and talked to him about the box. He told them that a tefillin is a religious item that observant Jewish men use during weekday morning prayers. They let the cooperative teen back on the plane, where him and his sister were still allowed to continue on to Louisville. It was all just a big misunderstanding.
I saw this story on the news and read the article. I was interested mostly because my boyfriend left for Florida this morning, and his flight was delayed do to this incident. Of course, they were being told a completely different story about a hostage situation, and I was extremely worried. When their plane finally boarded, I was relieved, and then I saw the story on the news and felt even better knowing that my boyfriend and his family were never in harms way.
Thank you for telling me more about this current event topic. Ah. I remember the days when all we had to do at airports was to walk through metal detectors.
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