NAMES IN THE NEWS : Anxious Trip Home for Quayle
Vice President Dan Quayle’s visit to his home state created some anxious moments for police and the Secret Service.
Officials became alarmed when they found an open hatch door Sunday on a cargo plane that travels with Quayle’s entourage.
Bartholomew County Sheriff Rick Hill said the Air Force crew flying the C-141 cargo jet believed that someone had rummaged through the plane.
“It was clear that someone had been on the plane so we had to be cautious,” Hill said.
“There was no vandalism, no damage, but some things had been moved around. So a bomb-sniffing dog was brought in,” the sheriff said.
Quayle was in southern Indiana to drop off one of his children at summer camp in Brown County when the hatch was discovered open on the jet while it was parked at the Columbus Municipal Airport.
Nothing unusual was found during the search and Quayle returned to the nation’s capital Sunday afternoon, authorities said.
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