Smell delays luggage to passengers OMAHA, Neb. (AP) =97 A strong smell made workers ill and kept passengers= from=20 picking up their luggage for about an hour after a Monday night=20 flight. Baggage handlers because nauseated and developed sore throats as=20 they were unloading the luggage from America West flight 17 from Phoenix=20 around 8:45 p.m. CT, said Tom Swanek, an operations supervisor at Eppley=20 Airfield. A hazardous materials unit was called and the substance turned=20 out to be an acetone resin that had emptied into the luggage, Swanek said.= =20 "I think she was a beautician or something," Swanek said of the passenger=20 whose luggage was the source of the smell. "Until it was determined exactly= =20 what that product was we did not let the bags enter into the terminal=20 building," he said. Swanek said he was not certain how many people were on= =20 the flight. Omaha was the plane's final destination. No serious illnesses=20 were reported. America West did not immediately return a telephone message= =20 left at the airline's corporate communications office by The Associated= Press. *************************************************** The owner of Roger's Trinbago Site/TnTisland.com Roj (Roger James) escape email mailto:ejames@xxxxxxxxx Trinbago site: www.tntisland.com Carib Brass Ctn site www.tntisland.com/caribbeanbrassconnection/ Steel Expressions www.mts.net/~ejames/se/ Site of the Week: http://www.thehummingbirdonline.com TnT Webdirectory: http://search.co.tt *********************************************************