Photo

Jet aircraft with Air India and Singapore Airlines are parked at a John F. Kennedy International Airport terminal Monday, Sept. 8, 2008 in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Regular Photo Size

Northeast News

Less snow, more blizzards: Global warming suspected

Global warming changing snow patterns?

With scant snowfall and barren ski slopes in parts of the …

3 officers wounded in NJ shooting

Three Philadelphia-area police officers who were shot inside a …

OUI arrest outside home of AA founder

Vermont State Police say a man faces a drunken driving charge …

Southwest plane skids off runway in NY

A Southwest Airlines jet bound for Tampa, Fla., has veered off …

Storm brings snow, rain to Northeast

A muted version of a winter storm that has killed more than a …

Hundreds evacuated from terminal at airport in NYC

Updated: Saturday, 23 Jun 2012, 3:29 PM EDT
Published : Saturday, 23 Jun 2012, 3:29 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of air passengers and staff were evacuated from a terminal at New York City's Kennedy Airport after a metal detector malfunctioned at one of the security checkpoints.

The Transportation Security Administration says it closed Kennedy's Terminal 7 for about two hours Saturday morning after discovering the equipment problem and realizing that people had been let through without being properly screened.

Procedures call for the entire terminal to be emptied and the passengers re-checked whenever that happens.

Some travelers have posted photographs on Twitter showing the terminal lobby jammed with people waiting to get back in.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says the screening checkpoints were reopened to passengers by 11:45 a.m.

The terminal is used by British Airways, United, and other airlines.