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One person hurt after bag explosion at Chicago's O’Hare Airport
The FBI is investigating an incident Tuesday at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport after a checked bag exploded or combusted.
The suspicious item was a checked bag in the C Concourse, according to Transportation Security Administration spokesman Greg Soule.
Soule said Chicago police, fire and ordnance teams are on the scene. The FBI is interviewing the owner of the bag, Soule said. He added that a perimeter has been established to ensure the safety of people in the area. There were no evacuation orders in place, officials said.
United Airlines spokeswoman Mary Ryan said one employee had been taken to an area hospital.
“A United Airlines baggage handler received minor burns while handling 'pelican cases' which contained batteries,” according to Larry Langford with the Chicago Fire Department. “While the investigation is still under way, it is believed that a metal strip may have triggered the batteries inside the case. There is no criminal activity suspected and (it) is being treated as an accident. The Chicago Fire Department is checking other containers."
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Oh great! How'd it get through bag check?!
PLEASE READ ... Just because something in your checked baggage has batteries does not mean it WILL explode ... geez can anyone get past the first two lines of a report BEFORE asking stupid questions ???
Lithium batteries
Idiots
Quick! They are distracted! Get the dirty bomb on the plane!
You have a criminal mind my friend.
Given the toxicity of lithium and the other stuff in batteries, that was a dirty bomb. It successfully threw a major airport into chaos...
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finally all those TSA people have something real on their hands...oh wait, it's batteries...
Do people just not realize that we need to ban ALL batteries in this country? They kill people every day.
Batteries don't kill people, people kill people 🙂
People kill batteries.
Darn obama, he is a failure. How could he not see this? This happened because of socialism. If he didnt spread my wealth that guy would mot ne able to purchase those kind of battery. How did he buy those with welfare checks? Unbelievable. We need to take this country back!!!!
That is so scarily close to what some people will say. You hit just the right tone.
Haha, fantastic!
It is a sign from above, the world may soon be coming to an end. Repent and be saved, heathens.
Ladies and Gentlemen: We in the media ship cameras and lithium batteries ALL THE TIME. The airlines can't make up their collective minds on 'Do they want them in the cargo hold' or 'Do they want them in the cabin'....
As a cameraman I have to deal with this issue all the time. But, it is a rare accident, and not one that should alarm the general population. In all the years and miles I've used these batteries, I know of no one that has had an issue. Until now.
Do you insulate the terminals of spare lithium batteries in checked baggage the way TSA advises?
Sensationalism. It was a battery that exploded. You know, like a laptop or maybe even a AA battery..
It happens. So now this is a headline BAG EXPLODES AT AIRPORT OH NOES THE MANATEES.
The Huge Manatees!
If this would have happened during previous administration, the country would have been placed on double secret high red alert for 6 months and we'd have been told how we had been kept safe by our guvmint's quick response.
Anyone who pointed out it was batteries would have been branded a traitor to the country and asked why they hated the troops.
Damned liberal media....
I do miss being worried all the time. Ah the good ole days.
. . . it would also have given us the reason we needed to bomb Iran.
@ Bimbo the B Day Clown
It may be an accident but no harm in crying Muslims. I'm sure that cry would be taken up eagerly by all and sundry.
What is surprising is that our Attorney General or the FBI didn't get to a microfone quick enough to announce a 'thwarted' terror plot.
Wouldn't have been so funny if it exploded in mid air, now would it.
Well, yeah... kinda would be. Also, go Pats. Brady > Sanchez.
TSA rule requires that spare lithium batteries have their ends capped off by tape or something like that, if I recall. It's long seemed to me that this rule is impossible to enforce, and that maybe spare batteries of any kind should be banned if they pose a danger. X-rays can locate batteries, but the bag has to be opened to determine whether they are properly stored.
Yeah no chance asking Americans to be more careful in their daily lives......
Actually, I'm not so sure it's a rule or requirement. It may just be a recommendation.
Until now.