Article: BOX CUTTER FOUND ON JET AT LOGAN PROBE FOLLOWS SECURITY BREACH

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 ...

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