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Bomb Threat Delays Lambert Flight

Airport Police Chief Paul Mason takes questions from reporters Friday morning.
(KWMU staff)
Airport Police Chief Paul Mason takes questions from reporters Friday morning.

By Matt Sepic, KWMU

St. Louis – A bomb threat delayed a Southwest Airlines flight to Orlando Friday morning at Lambert Airport.

As the plane was leaving the gate, a passenger found a Sky Mall magazine on which someone had written "There's a bomb on this plane. You're about to crash and blow up."

Airport officials moved the aircraft to an isolated area and searched it with bomb-sniffing dogs, but found nothing.

Airport Police Chief Paul Mason says the passenger who found the note is not a suspect.

"We have no reason to suspect that person," Mason said. "People sitting on both sides of that person saw nobody writing anything. And that person was a passenger that got on the airplane here in St. Louis."

Mason says no other airport operations were affected.

The FBI is investigating.

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