Goodbye kiss causes security scare

A security scare that shut the Newark, New Jersey airport for hours and delayed thousands of passengers was caused by a man who slipped into a secure area. The man had good intentions, to give a woman a goodbye kiss. Unfortunately his timing is awful, it come two weeks after an attempted bombing aboard a December 25th U.S.-bound flight.

The video shows a federal officer at the airport left his post shortly before the man walked by the same spot and into a secure area. The man slipped underneath a security barrier, met a departing female passenger who already passed through a security checkpoint. He then gave her what appeared to be a goodbye kiss. The man and woman, who have not been unidentified, walked off screen hand-in-hand.

The breach at Newark Liberty International Airport, is one of three major airports serving the New York city area. The event rattled security officials and the airline industry because it came so soon after the botched Christmas Day bombing of a Detroit-bound U.S. airliner.