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Article: BOX CUTTER FOUND ON JET AT LOGAN PROBE FOLLOWS SECURITY BREACH
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 29, 2003
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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 the first discovery of a box cutter on an
airliner since the federal government took over airport security last ...