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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."
- CNN’s Kara Devlin contributed to this report.
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The whole thing: very silly, Third Gradish!!
No better news ?
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what are you so happy about, someone got injured
TSA, always creating problems where there weren't any before.
Maybe that should be the terror alert system: 1st grade 2nd grade and so on, all the way up too Sophmoric!!
TSA Halloween prank to get them more funding.
WHAT!!!!?
A massive explosion taking out half of O'Hare Intl airport!!?
the count is at 867 right now and climbing!!!! WHAT!!!!?
Is this ANOTHER U.S. Attempt to start something? Sounds like it.
Was it in a cake box?
Isn't this how that jet over the Florida everglades went down?
No. Those were oxygen canisters.
This is why we dont hire GED flunkies to grope our junk and handle our baggage. Curb the TSA nonsense
This is why IATA has the TDG Air regulations. Batteries have to be packed in a certain way with the terminals isolated.
They should be packed in accordance with Packing Instructions 965-970, and properly declared.
The person that shipped them probably failed to do one or all of the above. I'm surprised the airport staff even let them through, unless they were unaware of the contents of the checked bag. I'm pretty sure it's a serious offense to fail to declare dangerous goods as outlined in TDG Air.
Way way better for this to happen in pre-flight handling rather than in flight. There's no telling how many lives were in jeopardy because of the ignorance of the owner. Some battery technologies such as lithium are absolutely lethal, a resulting fire, either through improper packing or defective battery, cannot be extinguished by the usual means if at all. This is not something that should be left up to the unqualified. Some serious fines are in order.
Once I forgot a bit of coffee in my coffee travel mug. The TSA got the bomb-exploding robot out at 100,000 dollars tax-payer expense to explode my mug.
Yet... they are not irrational... perfectly fine.. nothing to see here, move on.
OH EM GEE, a shorted battery caused a FIRE...... no wait explosion... give me a break with using FEAR words instead of what actually happened.......
Explosion? Did the case go "poof" or "explode" (with a bang, shrapnel flying, window glass shattering)? Why does it say "checked bag exploded or combusted". Maybe the headline should say "Batteries give off smoke, TSA panics and CNN embelishes story"