LONG BEACH, Calif. — A suspicious item in checked luggage that prompted the evacuation of a terminal at Long Beach Airport on Thursday turned out to be an electronic game, authorities said.
Several hundred people were evacuated from the terminal for about 90 minutes and five arriving aircraft were held on the tarmac until the all-clear was given.
The item was discovered in a bag by federal Transportation Security Administration workers at about 9:30 a.m., agency spokeswoman Jennifer Peppin said.
"It is basically a handheld game board that a passenger packed," she told Fox News Channel.
"It certainly was nothing but it certainly looked like something. It had all the wires and components that you would see in an explosive device," Peppin said
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