Security scare disrupts planes

ATLANTA (AP) -- Officials shut down all security checkpoints at the nation's busiest airport for about two hours after a "suspicious image" was detected in a screening machine.
After a hand search of bags, nothing matching the image was found, said Willie Williams, Transportation Security Administration director at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. He declined to say what the image appeared to be but said authorities continued to analyze it.
Earlier in the day, TSA spokeswoman Amy von Walter said a possible homemade bomb had been detected.
A screener notified a supervisor of the suspicious image at 1:15 p.m., Williams said. The airport closed security checkpoints and grounded departing flights.
Checkpoints reopened at 3:40 p.m., while airport officials still "couldn't say for certain we had a threat," Williams said.
By the time checkpoints reopened, there had been no departures for more than an hour, and all arrivals were delayed at least 90 minutes, said Kathleen Bergen of the Federal Aviation Administration. At least 120 flights were affected, Bergen said.
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