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Alfred McDonald, Senior Director of Commercial Development and Planning at the AAJ
The Airports Authority of Jamaica (AAJ) says Friday evening's incident at the Norman Manley International Airport was a simulation exercise.
First responders flocked to the ticketing area shortly after 7 o'clock.
Alfred McDonald, Senior Director of Commercial Development and Planning at the AAJ, had earlier told RJR News that the bag explosion was a specific and isolated incident.
However, speaking with RJR News later on Friday evening, he revealed that the explosion was a mock exercise.
"We received information subsequent to what I reported earlier that the exercise was a simulation exercise and it was certainly intended that the responders would not have been aware that it was a simulation exercise. Thankfully, therefore, what we had there was something that was under control," he asserted.
Flight operations at the airport were not interrupted by the exercise.
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