TSA Reminds Parents to Check Kids’ Carry-on after Two Incidents in Florida
The Transportation Security Administration is reminding parents to check their children’s luggage as a grenade and a hatchet have been found in children’s luggage at Florida airports recently.
After the two incidents, the officials from Transportation Security Administration released a reminder to parents to check their kids’ luggage while packing and before leaving to the airport.
Earlier this week, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2015, a 12-year-old boy caused panic at Jacksonville International Airport when security officers found a grenade during an inspection of his hand luggage. The agents made the shocking discovery while the boy and his parents were going through a checkpoint.
The grenade was later determined inert and, therefore, not dangerous. However according to Sari Koshetz, TSA spokeswoman, even a replica can result in an evacuation until it is determined by authoritites the device does not pose a threat. That same day security agents prevented two other passengers from carrying guns aboard their flights.
A day earlier, Wednesday, security officers at Orlando International Airport found a small hatchet in a 16-year-old boy’s carry-on luggage traveling with his mom.
In response to the incidents, TSA spokeswoman Sari Koshetz reminded that hatchets, knives, grenades and guns are not permitted in carry-on bags.
Later Koshetz wrote on Twitter: “You may be going camping, but chack the bag.” warning that these types of findings could cause evacuations.
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