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March 29, 2007

Gas odor briefly delays United flights at Green

WARWICK -- United Airlines flights at T.F. Green Airport were delayed briefly this afternoon after an employee reported an odor of gasoline in a bathroom in the airline’s operation area below the main terminal.G

At approximately 2:30 p.m., a United worker reported the smell, prompting an evacuation of the airline’s ground-level facility, said Patti Goldstein, the airport’s spokeswoman and vice president of air service marketing. The Rhode Island Airport Corporation’s Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting unit, as well as the Warwick Fire Department responded to investigate.

As a precaution, officials in the control tower ordered all inbound and outbound United flights be held while fire crews checked out the reported smell. Goldstein said it was premature to delay flights on other airlines until crews could assess the situation.

The odor turned out to be nothing and United planes were back on schedule within 10 or 15 minutes, Goldstein said. The terminal was not evacuated, and no planes or passengers were affected by the incident.

-- Journal staff writer Cynthia Needham

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