Authorities: US man accused of planning to detonate car bomb at Kansas airport arrested.

U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom, right, followed by Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, leaves a news conference after announcing the arrest of Terry Lee Loewen, 58, of Wichita, Kan., on Friday, Dec. 13, 2013, in Witchita, Kan. Grissom said Loewen was arrested Friday morning at Mid-Continent regional airport where he planned to drive a car that he believed was full of explosives into a terminal at the airport. (AP Photo/The Wichita Eagle, Travis Heying)

December 13, 2013 - 11:25 AM

WICHITA, Kan. - Authorities say a man accused of planning to detonate a car bomb at a Kansas airport has been arrested.

U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said the man was arrested Friday morning at Mid-Continent regional airport in Wichita. He said the man planned to drive a car that he believed was full of explosives into a terminal at the airport.

Investigators say the man is an avionics technician who lives in Wichita and works at the airport.

News from © The Associated Press, 2013

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