Originally Posted by
atakacs
Just wondering, how was the "backpack identification process" performed?
Clearly this was an emergency evacuation using the slides and one would hope most (if not all...) hand luggage remained in the cabin.
Did they then send staff to retrieve them and have people identify their belongings? And detonate the one that was not claimed?! Was is somehow scanned before that?
Bild newspaper said passengers told airline personnel they had heard the men using words including "bomb" and "explosive", and said
one carried a suspicious backpack.