Fake-bomb test wasn't authorized, report says

It was the most embarrassing in a series of security breaches at Newark Liberty International Airport.

Screeners conducting a security drill lost track of their own fake bomb, allowing it to make its way onto a flight to Amsterdam, where it was finally located and retrieved the following day amid international media attention.

Now a federal internal affairs report has concluded that the security staff involved in the Dec. 14 incident was poorly trained for the exercise, improperly supervised and, in fact, not authorized to conduct fake bomb tests in the first place.
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