Police are investigating a suspicious package found at the Denver International Airport on Tuesday afternoon, airport officials announced on Twitter. All staff and passengers were ordered to temporarily evacuate a section of the main terminal due to the potential security threat.
In a series of tweets, the airport announced that flights are still departing but that delays are possible. Cars are currently forbidden from pulling up to the west side of the terminal.
DPD is evacuating a section of the main terminal on the west side between doors 600 and 610 to investigate a possible security threat
— Denver Int’l Airport (@DENAirport) March 22, 2016
Evacuation area includes west side of the main terminal levels 5 and 6, from doors 600-610 – flights continuing
— Denver Int’l Airport (@DENAirport) March 22, 2016
.@DenverPolice are currently on scene and investigating
— Denver Int’l Airport (@DENAirport) March 22, 2016
Denver Police continue to investigate suspicious package in main terminal, west side. Other operations continuing.
— Denver Int’l Airport (@DENAirport) March 22, 2016
Some flights may be affected by this incident, please check your flight status with your airline for the latest schedules
— Denver Int’l Airport (@DENAirport) March 22, 2016
Denver Police bomb squad is on scene evaluating a suspicious package. We appreciate your patience as we put passenger safety first
— Denver Int’l Airport (@DENAirport) March 22, 2016
.@DenverPolice continue to investigate several suspicious items in the terminal. We continue to thank passengers for their patience
— Denver Int’l Airport (@DENAirport) March 22, 2016
Passengers should check their flight status with their airline directly for the latest schedules. High winds are slowing some traffic
— Denver Int’l Airport (@DENAirport) March 22, 2016
.@DenverPolice has cleared the suspicious items. No threat found. West terminal will open to the public in a few minutes.
— Denver Int’l Airport (@DENAirport) March 22, 2016
Airports across the country are on heightened alert Tuesday after bombings struck Brussel’s airport and a subway station, killing 31 and injuring 181.
Glad not to be flying or picking someone up today. It will probably be nothing, but also glad there’s a response, and a measured one. They are only closing off a fairly small area.
While it is significant that they have evacuated the airport, that they are allowing flights to leave is sort of messy, considering some passengers may have been among the evacuated and will have lost their flights.
I don’t know how that’ll work out.
Trump: This shows we must close our borders and torture prisoners and ban Muslims.
Cruz: This shows we must close our borders and send cops into Muslim neighborhoods and re-start the House Un-American Activities Committee.
And there is is folks, the full range of response from the “leadership” of today’s batshit-crazy GOP.
Only a part in the main terminal, that is, the baggage area. Probably passengers departing from DIA can get around to an open area to get to their flights.
Edit: baggage and check in. It appears that the check in counters on that side are off limits for now. I had a look at the Denver Post, which doesn’t have much more information.
We haven’t heard from John “The -R is for Reasonable” Kasich, who presumably will suggest that taxes be cut in any state with Muslim residents, that Union political activity be curtailed in any state with Muslim residents, that Planned Parenthood be completely defunded so that there are no abortions performed as a result of Sharia law, and that Muslims be admitted into the US after 18 months of “loyalty training”.