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INDIANAPOLIS -- An American Airlines flight was evacuated Friday after a flight attendant found a suspicious-looking device in the airliner. Police determined the object posed no danger.

Indianapolis International Airport officials offered no details on what the device was.

The plane touched down at 2 p.m. EST and about 60 passengers and crew were evacuated using an emergency slide because stairs brought to the plane did not fit.

American Airlines spokesman Carlo Bertolini said police and bomb-sniffing dogs boarded the plane and determined the device contained no explosives.

The flight from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport to Indianapolis was wrapping up when an attendant noticed an object with a string attached to it on the floor near the rear of the plane, said Dennis Rosebrough, an Indianapolis International Airport spokesman.

The attendant alerted pilots and the device was taken to the back of the plane, an MD-Super 80. Police and fire officials were on the ground waiting for the jet when it landed.
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Breaking News: Threat involving Twin Cities bound flight from Denver
Updated: 12-26-2003 08:29:06 PM

MINNEAPOLIS - A flight from Denver to the Twin Cities was evacuated and searched by police and bomb-sniffing dogs Friday night after touchdown at Minneaoplis-St. Paul International Airport. Frontier Airlines flight 100 landed shortly after 6 o'clock and taxied to a remote area of the airfield where it was surrounded by security personnel. A short time later, passengers were evacuated and transported by bus to the Humphrey International Charter Terminal.

Denver International Airport officials received a telephoned threat about 4 o'clock Mountain time. Spokeswoman Sally Covington declined to specify the threat. While the F-B-I determined the threat was of "low credibility," three airlines asked for passengers' bags to be re-screened. Covington says she didn't know which airlines or how many flights were involved in the re-screening.

The Frontier flight bound to Minneapolis was treated differently because it was in mid-flight once the threat was received. Security officials chose to move the Boeing 737-300 to a remote area of the airport where it could be searched. Baggage and cabin areas were being checked by bomb-sniffing dogs.

Frontier officials say the threat did not specifically involve their airline. Normal flights operations continued at both Denver and the Twin Cities airports.

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[Colin]

Unbelievable. I hate it...my mom always tells me, back in her day, there was none of this.

Why can't it still be that way?

[Josephine96]

I wonder if anything would have happened on that Minneapolis bound flight..?

[blizzard]

The Mall of America is probably a target for terrorists. A plane flown into the mall could be very disastrous. Tens of thousands of shoppers can be in there at any given time of the day.

[Josephine96]

Blizzard.. I have personally always thought that the terrorists would hit that as their prime target.. Not NYC or DC.

I sure hope they don't hit it.. But the fact that the possibility is there makes it a tad bit frightening