Security glitch disprupts Cincinnati airport

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Security glitch disprupts Cincinnati airport  =

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Thursday September 12, 3:11 PM EDT =


CINCINNATI, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Hundreds of passengers had to be re-scree=
ned and several flights were delayed at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky =
International Airport on Thursday because of a security slip-up, official=
s said.

The problem involved a male passenger who had gone through security and t=
hen told Transportation Security Administration personnel he left his cel=
l phone in his car, according to Brian Doyle, a spokesman for the agency.=


As a favor to the passenger a trainee was assigned to accompany him back =
to his car to retrieve the phone so that he would not have to go through =
the line again, Doyle said.

Through a misunderstanding, however, the trainee went with the passenger =
only to the curb and not all the way to his car. The man came back and wa=
s then allowed to bypass the line and go to his flight.

When personnel realized he had been out sight they decided to "err on the=
 side of caution," Doyle said, and re-screen everyone waiting in two Delt=
a Air Lines terminals.

During the subsequent screening the man in question was identified going =
through the line again and was checked a second time, he said.

The disruption lasted less than two hours at the airport that is located =
in northern Kentucky across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. =



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