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"Passengers on a Southwest flight were delayed at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport for about an hour Monday evening as federal and state law enforcement searched their plane for an object that &amp;quot;raised the concerns of the airline,&amp;quot; an airport spokesman said. No object was found.Those aboard Southwest flight 2365 from Florida were told to disembark after the aircraft landed at 7:11 p.m. in Baltimore, said BWI spokesman Jonathan Dean.Passengers said they were told to leave the cabin without their purses or personal items. Several in the airport used social media to report developments. &amp;quot;Our plane at BWI was just cleared for a random search,&amp;quot; tweeted Debby Hudson. &amp;quot;People off stuff stays on. ALL of it. Marshalls boarding. Yippee-I-A.&amp;quot;Mike Butz wrote on his Twitter feed: &amp;quot;Ten TSA agents and five uniformed officers just barricaded the BWI gate across from I&#039;m waiting out my layover.&amp;quot;Dean, the BWI spokesman, said &amp;quot;nothing unusual was discovered&amp;quot; during an hourlong search and the aircraft was allowed to continue. &amp;quot;Authorities acted with an abundance of caution,&amp;quot; Dean said.Officers with the Transportation Security Administration and the Maryland Transportation Authority police participated.Annie.linskey@baltsun.comhttp://www.twitter.com/annielinskey"
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