After panic took over LAX Airport on Sunday, the airport is going back to normal on Monday.
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Officers ran into the terminal with guns as other officers patrolled the exterior of the terminal.
Officers detained the man and later released him after determining that his sword was plastic, Pedregon said.
She said their luggage was stuck in the carousel and they were waiting for police to give the all clear. The man in the Zorro costume said he was at the airport unaware of the panic that ensued inside the airport.
The reports caused people to pour on to sidewalks and out on to the tarmac at the airport.
“We are grateful it was not actually an active shooter”, he said.
At the Los Angeles airport, the police action and a ground stop ordered by the Federal Aviation Administration caused airlines to divert 23 flights, including four global ones, to other airports.
The panic in Los Angeles began around 9 p.m. Sunday with reports of an active shooter in Terminal 8, the airport said.
The Los Angeles airport had a shooting in November 2013, when a man opened fire in the terminal, killing a security agent and wounding three other people. Garcetti said that after half an hour after the chaos, there was 80% certainty that ii was probably an incident resulted from a misunderstanding of some people in the terminals.
“People immediately started looking at social media, where they saw reports that there was an active shooter”, Rosenbusch said.
Traffic was jammed at LAX following an unconfirmed report of an active shooter at LAX on August 28, 2016. No shots fired; no injuries. Loud noises spurred the reports, and police were still investigating their source, Los Angeles police spokesman Andy Neiman said.
The FAA lifted the ground stop around 1 a.m. Monday, but by that time fights had been diverted.
No vehicles are being allowed into the Central Terminal Area, but vehicles are being allowed to leave the restricted area.
All terminals resumed operations around 11 p.m.
The Los Angeles Police late confirmed that no shots were fired and no gunman was found at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
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Authorities will be vigilant in making sure the false alarm was not a diversion to create mayhem elsewhere at the airport, he said.
