Overview

• On May 28 at around 6:30 p.m., a two-year-old slipped behind the JetBlue ticket counter in Terminal A at Newark Liberty International Airport and climbed onto a luggage conveyor belt.
• Two Port Authority officers entered the conveyor system, split down diverging lanes, and intercepted the child moments before he reached the X-ray machine.
• The incident unfolded while the child’s mother was rebooking a JetBlue flight, underscoring potential hazards of airport belt diverters and the need for close parental supervision.
• The child emerged uninjured, his family declined further medical attention, and they flew to Tampa, Florida, shortly after the rescue.
• Newark airport, which has endured air traffic control outages and construction delays, reopened a major runway nearly two weeks ahead of schedule on June 2.