Three Hour Delay At Aberdeen Due To Suspect Bag

Passengers on a BMI flight last night encountered a security scare as the pilot refused to take-off whilst a suspicious bag was onboard the aircraft.

All passengers had to depart the aircraft and identify their baggage before the flight was permitted to take-off. The flight was already late and was originally scheduled to take-off at 19:30. It did in fact not take-off until 22:30 due to the security scare. The reason for the delay before the baggage scare was due to the Aberdeen Airport check-in system failing. This meant that all passengers had to manually check-in causing considerable delays to the flight.

It is believed that the manual baggage checking was the reason behind the baggage confusion and the reason why the bag was unaccounted for.

Published by: Jon Vickery