Suspicious package cleared after security checkpoint shut down at Chattanooga Airport
December 18, 2017 at 5:47 p.m.
| Updated December 18, 2017 at 9:33 p.m.
by
Rosana Hughes
Ines Palacios, right, Bethany Smisson, center, and Emily Mauermann exit an escalator while traveling through the Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport on Friday, Dec. 15, 2017, in Chattanooga, Tenn. AAA forecasts a 3.1% increase in holiday travel over last year with an estimated 103 million Americans traveling between Dec. 23rd and Jan. 1st.
UPDATE: The suspicious package was checked and cleared.
Security checkpoint has been reopened and operations are back to normal. People have resumed boarding planes, an airport spokesman said.
It's not clear what the contents of the package were or what caused the suspicion.
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ORIGINAL STORY: Chattanooga Airport's security checkpoint has been closed because of something that was found by TSA agents, a spokesman said today.
Security agents want to check the situation as a precaution.
