LaGuardia Airport is back in operation after an early Saturday morning bomb scare. Scott McGann, 32, is in custody over the incident.
At 5:30 AM on Saturday, Scott McGann of Queens, apparently intoxicated, walked into Terminal C at LaGuardia. He had not yet gone through security, but security officials noticed that he was acting strangely, and separated him from his bag.
Scott McGann's bag contained what a bomb squad member later called a "hoax device." It was a set of batteries and wires attached to what looked like an power strip.
Scott McGann had a boarding pass for United Airlines Flight 667 to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. Once there, he was to board Flight 675 to Denver, and then Flight 561 to Oakland, CA.
Despite the fact that Scott McGann was drunk, the question of why he would prepare what looked like a hoax bomb is still an open one. I mean, it wasn't simply drunkenness that led to that plan, was it?
While the airport is now open again, Concourse C, the terminal that Scott McGann entered is currently closed. That terminal serves United, United Express and American Eagle, would remain closed indefinitely as it is still "a crime scene.”
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