Security breach delays Charlotte/Douglas flights

by PEP | August 10, 2007 at 06:28 am
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The Transportation Security Administration has delayed at least 15 outbound flights this morning at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport while they search for a man who got past a concourse checkpoint.

Flights on other concourses are taking off as scheduled, said TSA spokesman Jon Allen. But the TSA ordered at least five flights searched that hadn't left their gates, and about 10 additional flights that had left their gates but not taken off yet to return to be searched, he said.

Update: authorities now say they believe the man boarded a plane via "C" concourse.

WCNC is preparing a breaking news report. 

Update #2: Officials now confirm that all outbound flights at Charlotte were halted.

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