Bomb scares at Heathrow
■ (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, Sept. 9. Bomb scares threw' Heathrow Airport into confusion for much of yesterday. In the morning, flights were delayed for more than an hour as bomb-disposal experts prepared to blow up a suspicious parcel left near the check-in counter of Aer Lingus, the Irish international airline, but an Irishman turned up to claim his parcel seconds before it was to be detonated.
In the afternoon, office workers were evacuated from a main administrative building because of a hoax call. The European air terminal was later cordoned off by bomb experts, and an army disposal unit detonated a parcel. A police spokesman said: “A decision had to be taken to detonate the package, and we did not know that it was not a bomb.” The terminal remained closed for an hour, flights departed up to two hours late, and one airline official said that some flights were leaving without all their passengers.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33944, 10 September 1975, Page 17
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