BIRMINGHAM - Officials evacuated a terminal at Birmingham International Airport after realizing a metal detector was unplugged. <br>
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Authorities evacuated the airport's C terminal shortly after 8 a.m. Sunday after an official noticed a walk-through metal detector was unplugged, said Sgt. Roy Bowden of the Birmingham Airport Police. <br>
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Bowden did not know how many people were affected and did not know how the detector became disconnected. <br>
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A Delta Airlines spokeswoman said a flight from Atlanta with 26 people was delayed landing for about 50 minutes and 110 people scheduled to take the plane back to Atlanta were screened a second time. <br>
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A Southwest Airlines flight to New Orleans and Delta Airlines flights to Cincinnati and New York's LaGuardia Airport had taken off. They were allowed to continue to their destinations, said Kathleen Bergen, a Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman in Atlanta. <br>
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``The passengers were reverse screened at their destinations,'' Bergen said. <br>
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The Birmingham concourse was cleared and checked by the National Guard and airport police, including a bomb-sniffing dog. <br>
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Bowden said operations resumed shortly before 10 a.m. <br>
