Newark Airport reopened Monday morning after officials shut down part of its Terminal A for about an hour following a bomb scare involving a suspicious package.
The Transportation Security Administration checked a package containing a suspicious computer monitor, during screening on the ground floor at 6:17 a.m. in Terminal A, according to a TSA statement in an e-mail. Terminal A is the American Airlines terminal at Newark Liberty International Airport.
The ground floor area was shut down while the rest of the terminal operated normally.
"To ensure the safety of the traveling public, the nearby security checkpoint was temporarily closed," Fotenos said.
A police bomb squad cleared the monitor, resuming normal operations at 8:16 a.m. FBI agent Bryan Travers told The Associated Press that the computer monitor posed no danger and the earlier suspicion was probably due to the small amounts of radiation computer monitors usually emit.
The shutdown at Newark Airport, one of the three major airports in the New York City metropolitan area alongside John F. Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia, occurred during the busy holiday travel season, a time when officials are particularly sensitive to security threats.
