Threat forces evacuation at Pennslyvania Boeing plant
Sep 11, 2012, 8:39 AM | Updated: 10:12 am
Workers wait outside a Boeing aircraft plant in Ridley Park, Pa. on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012 after part of the suburban Philadelphia facility was evacuated when a threatening note was found, according to a company spokesperson. Neither the company nor police divulged what was in the note or who left it. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Part of a Boeing factory near Philadelphia that produces the H-47 Chinook helicopter was evacuated Tuesday after a threatening note was found, a company spokesman said.
Neither the company nor police divulged what was in the note or who left it, but it forced several hundred employees to leave the sprawling plant between 7:30 a.m. and 8:30 a.m.
“The threat related to one of our production facilities,” said Boeing spokesman Damien Mills. The Ridley Park factory also produces the V-22 Osprey.
Another spokesman, Andrew Lee, said first-shift workers were being sent home but Boeing was hopeful second-shift workers would be on the job in the afternoon.
Doc Price, 63, who works as an aircraft tech on the Chinook, said they got word to leave the building early.
“They just said, ‘Everyone, out of the building,”‘ he said.
Asked if there was any word on who left the note, Price said he didn’t know, but added that “somebody probably made a major mistake.”
