A passenger with two hunting knives in his carry-on luggage temporarily shut down security operations and held up flight operations for about a half hour this morning at Orlando International Airport.

An officer for the Transportation Security Administration noticed the knives on the x-ray image as the bag was being scanned and called to have the bag searched by hand. Before the extra search could be done, though, the passenger took off with the bag. At that point the operations in east part of the terminal froze, said TSA spokeswoman Sari Koshetz.

Koshetz said TSA officials reviewed a surveillance tape to be sure of the identity of the passenger and shut down gates 60-129 to look for him. He was detained and questioned by police, but no charges were filed.

The east checkpoint was reopened by shortly after 8:30 a.m.


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