Terminal at La Guardia Airport evacuated
March 22, 2002 Posted: 12:20 PM EST (1720 GMT)
From Shannon Troetel
CNN

NEW YORK (CNN) -- A terminal at New York's La Guardia Airport was evacuated shortly after 10 a.m. EST Friday, according to a spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).

Passengers from Delta's Terminal D were evacuated "due to a security breach," the spokeswoman said. The spokeswoman did not have details on why the terminal was evacuated.

Peggy Estes, a spokeswoman for Delta Airlines, said a passenger on a stretcher was passed through security screeners, but the accompanying emergency medical technicians were not. The passenger was boarding a Northwest Airlines flight.

"We can confirm that all the passengers on the concourse are being rescreened," Northwest Airlines spokesman Kurt Ebenhoch said.

A TSA spokesman said passengers at the terminal are in the process of being rescreened through security.

Planes from that terminal were recalled and parked at terminal gates, he said. "No airborn traffic was affected" by the security breach, he said.