Plane bound for Atlanta emptied after noise heard on plane

BOSTON - Authorities said police emptied a Delta Air Lines plane during boarding Thursday and searched it after a passenger heard a strange noise from an overhead bin and reported it to the flight crew. <br> <br> A spokesman for Massport, which operates Logan Airport, Phil Orlandella, said the noise originally was believed to have come from a pair of sneakers left in an overhead bin, but was later determined to be an air leak in the bin. <br> <br> An associated Press reporter who was boarding the flight, Ken Maguire, said first-class passengers had begun boarding Flight 505 from Logan International to Atlanta about 11:45 a.m. when officials got them off the plane. <br> <br> Maguire said passengers were then told over the public address system that the plane was being taken to a remote area where an ``item&#39;&#39; would be removed. <br> <br> The plane, which had landed from Atlanta earlier in the morning, was towed to an isolated area and checked with bomb-sniffing dogs. <br> <br> Heather Rosenker, Transporation Security Administration spokeswoman, said no explosives were found and the plane was later cleared.