Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
Very strange article:
"It is unclear what flight the man was due to board and whether the detected device was viable."
Can you get as far as security at MAN without a valid boarding pass ?
Since they're using the term "Luggage", my first guess was that it was caught by the hold baggage system. But other news articles are saying "hand luggage".
They are describing the device as being the size of a large market pen. That's pretty small for a pipe bomb and it's probably why they didn't recognize it as an intentional threat on first inspection.