Narrowly miss airport shutdown
As our shuttle van was leaving the airport; security was blocking off a road, but we didn’t think anything off it. Apparently there was a suspicious bag in the airport shutting down the national airport for a bit. Story from local Little Rock news…
The Little Rock National Airport has reopened after being closed this afternoon.
TSA spokesperson Chuck Polk says the airport was evacuated for about 20 min after a suspicious package was in the checked baggage at the Delta security check point.
Little Rock police, fire and bomb squad were called to the scene. From what we are told they are still there investigating the suspicious package.
TSA did not evacuate the passengers who were boarding planes. Planes were still able to leave but they did keep airplanes from coming in during the evacuation..
