Cayman Customs search plane, upon arrival from Jamaica

Customs officers in the Cayman Islands on Wednesday carried out an operation on a Cayman Airways flight from Jamaica.

    
It was conducted shortly after the plane landed at Owen Roberts International Airport.

    
Television station Cayman 27, in its report on the operation, quoted a Customs official as saying it was "part of a stategy to reduce contraband coming through the airport."

Dogs from the Customs Canine Unit sniffed each piece of checked luggage as it was unloaded from the aircraft and the inside of the plane was also searched, the television station reported.

Passengers told Cayman 27 that, while they understood that the authorities were merely doing their job, they were upset that it took "around an hour" before their luggage began arriving on the conveyor belt in the customs hall of the airport.

No contraband was found.