An airport’s operations were halted for several hours after officials discovered what appeared to be a bomb inside a human skull, inside a passenger’s checked bag.
Checked baggage screening was paused for two hours at Salt Lake City International Airport on September 18, after Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers identified the unusual object at the baggage x-ray point.
According to TSA, officers saw a skull-like image on the X-ray with “unidentifiable components inside”. Since there was a chance it could be “an improvised explosive device”, they paused bag screening for two hours and contacted the Salt Lake City Police Airport Division.
The police’s explosives specialists were called to the airport, along with their bomb-sniffing dogs and the passenger of the bag was located and asked about the contents of their luggage.