The Nation - News from Jan. 5, 1989

Staffers from two European television stations in unrelated incidents attempted to put fake bombs aboard scheduled airline flights in apparent journalistic tests of airport security. At New York’s Kennedy Airport, Bruce Frankel, a producer, and Alain Chaillou, a bureau chief for French station TF1, were arrested after phony bombs with mocking notes were left for shipment on Paris-bound flights. In Amsterdam, TV station Veronica filmed one of its reporters carrying an attache case with an imitation bomb through security and onto a plane at Schipol Airport. Air France, TWA and Pan Am were the New York “targets.”