Just a quick question from the horde of experts on the topic. How many of you have actually had dangerous goods (tranport and loading, not just carriage) courses and how many of you have actually had bomb threat and search training?
The only thing of concern for this is the time period taken at the airport to get the suspect package dealt with. The comments about the package itself realistically are uneducated. Without being the person who found the package how can you actually know what the deal was with it or why it was considered suspect.
If any of you have read the news about the bombing of the office in Adelaide (around 10yrs ago or so) you may have found out that the package was the size of a video tape.
Unfortunately the threat of improvised devices is actually real and usually not from sources such as Bin Laden. It could easily have been some disgruntled employee that placed it there, because they are pissed off at having to pay a bond on their aircraft for their new job *tongue is cheek comment btw*
It's hard to accept that we who work in an industry that accepts basically a zero tolerance on accidents then gob off about such things as suspect packages.