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Article: Probe Follows Discovery of Box Cutter Found on Jet at Boston Airport.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- January 29, 2003
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The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jan. 29--A passenger of a United Airlines jet awaiting takeoff at Logan Airport yesterday found a box cutter in the first-class cabin, prompting an evacuation of the plane and a federal investigation.
Security officials said they saw no evidence that the box cutter was planted on the San Francisco-bound flight for a potential terrorist attack. But they said they have no idea how the box cutter -- a large razor-like implement of the type thought to be used by hijackers from first-class cabins in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks -- got on the plane or who put it there.
It was apparently ...