LCD Monitor Packed w/ Checked Luggage Causes Shutdown at Newark – Radiation Present
A computer monitor that was checked as baggage caused a security scare Monday morning at Newark Liberty International Airport, prompting officials to shut down part of a terminal for about an hour as a precaution. The TSA didn’t say exactly what flagged the alert, but a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said that all monitors give off radiation, so our best guess is that radiation from the computer monitor was enough to trip the alarm in the bag scanner!
Ron Marsico, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the airport, said one security checkpoint in Terminal A was shut down, as was the ground floor area where the bag was being screened. The rest of the terminal operated normally, he said. Computer monitors normally emit small amounts of radiation and there was never any danger, FBI agent Bryan Travers said. The monitor was being shipped to the same destination as its owner, who was already in flight, Travers said.
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