“Khoshnu is not going to be charged with a crime but that she may have to pay for the search and destruction of her luggage, which could cost about $10,000″
What do you do when a passenger jokes about having a bomb in their luggage? Put the luggage on a plane but keep the passenger on the ground. These guys really need to do something about their procedures. As for destroying the luggage upon arrival – if it *did* have a bomb in it would have been very obvious, one way or another, by the time the plane came to the ground.