Looks like bold new technical methods are being employed:
Posted on Sat, Mar. 27, 2004
Psychic prompts search of passenger jet in Fort Myers
Associated Press
FORT MYERS, Fla. - A psychic's warning that a bomb might be on a Dallas-bound passenger jet at Southwest Florida International Airport prompted federal and local officials to search it with bomb-sniffing dogs.
Nothing suspicious was found on American Airlines Flight 1304, but the delay Friday caused the flight to be canceled because some crew members had exceeded their work hours when the search was finished, officials said.
Doug Perkins, the local Transportation Security Administration director, said the psychic's call was "unusual."
"But in these times, we can't ignore anything. We want to take the appropriate measures," he said.
The crew was evacuated from the plane, but none of the 128 passengers had boarded yet, Perkins said.
TSA officials wouldn't say where the call was made from or who it was made to.
An American Airlines spokesman also said the call came from a psychic, but said the company was notified about it by TSA. The passengers were placed on other flights that left later Friday and Saturday.
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