Low-battery alert delays LaGuardia flight
A file photo of a US Airways jet at LaGuardia Airport in November 2006. Credit: Newsday, 2006 / Robert Mecea
A "suspicious noise" aboard a US Airways flight at LaGuardia Airport led to a nearly three-hour delay and the unloading of all passengers, officials said Thursday.
The noise turned out to be a low battery alert from a credit card reader used for in-flight passenger purchases, a Port Authority spokeswoman said.
Officials decided to empty Flight 2138 of its 99 passengers and search the plane "out of an abundance of caution," a US Airways spokeswoman said.
By 8:20 p.m. Thursday, authorities had cleared the flight for departure and were reloading passengers onto the aircraft.
The flight, originally scheduled to leave New York for Boston at 6 p.m., was scheduled to take off at 8:45 p.m., the airline spokeswoman said.
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