NEWARK, N.J. — The unidentified man may have been lost, confused or simply mistaken about which way to go when he bypassed security and walked in through an exit door at Newark Liberty International Airport.
Whatever the explanation, his seemingly innocuous actions Sunday evening wreaked havoc on airline schedules and delayed fliers around the globe for 24 hours.
Transportation Security Administration officials Monday were still investigating the incident, which occurred in the airport’s Terminal C at about 5:30 p.m. Sunday.
An unidentified security officer assigned to the area of the exit door apparently didn’t see the man enter but was notified by a bystander. Flights were grounded for about six hours while authorities rescreened passengers, searched for anything amiss in the terminal and looked at surveillance tapes to try to identify the man. He was later seen on tape leaving the terminal about 20 minutes after he entered it. The Associated Press
