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A 2-year-old lad was rescued from a luggage screening country astatine Newark Liberty International Airport past week.
The kid was swept distant from a rider luggage dropoff conveyor loop Wednesday evening portion his parent was speaking with a JetBlue antagonistic agent, reports say.
After falling down a chute to the little level of the Terminal A checked baggage room, Port Authority Police Department officers went aft him, according to local TV presumption PIX 11.
"The cops, realizing the information the kid was in, without hesitation, entered the conveyor strategy and, aft astir 4 minutes, located the kid who was headed for an x-ray machine," the Port Authority Police Benevolent Association Inc said of the incidental successful a social media post.
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People hold for their luggage successful Terminal C astatine Newark Liberty International Airport connected May 14, 2025, successful Newark, New Jersey. (Michael M. Santiago)
The toddler's gramps told PIX 11 helium was grateful to the officers who went aft the boy, and that the lad and his parent were okay.
Neither JetBlue nor the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey instantly got backmost to Fox News Digital requests for comment.
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United Airlines crushed unit load luggage onto a Boeing 737 Max-8 level astatine Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) successful Newark, New Jersey, connected Wednesday, March 13, 2024. (Bing Guan/Bloomberg)
The airport has been successful the headlines for formation delays and aerial postulation power issues, but a closed runway reopened this week 13 days up of schedule, allowing regular runway operations to resume Monday.
The Port Authority, which oversees the airport, accelerated the operation docket by bringing successful further crews, expanding shifts and enabling operation 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Baggage assertion country with conveyor loop and passengers collecting luggage astatine Newark Liberty International Airport, Newark, New Jersey, connected Oct. 19, 2024. ( Smith Collection/Gado)
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"I commend the crews who person worked tirelessly to get this captious task done up of schedule," Gov. Phil Murphy said. "I’m grateful for New Jersey’s partnership with the Port Authority and the FAA arsenic we enactment to instrumentality to afloat capableness astatine Newark Airport. New Jersey volition bash each we tin to enactment plans from the [U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)] to put successful modernizing our aerial postulation power strategy and afloat staffing our aerial postulation controllers."
Fox News Digital's Alexandra Koch and Marc Tamasco contributed to this report.
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