A woman whose family missed an Australian holiday because she twice mentioned the word ''bomb'' has been compensated by the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore.
Sandra Tan, 34, said she complied when security officers asked her to take off her boots for screening on March 9 at Changi Airport's Budget Terminal.
When her 13-year-old daughter asked why she had to, Tan explained that the officers were ''afraid we might keep bombs in our shoes,'' The Straits Times today quoted the mother as saying.
She said a security company employee asked her to repeat what she had said.
Tan replied that she was explaining to her daughter that ''You guys are afraid we will keep bombs in our shoes''.
She was told to step aside. Tan said that a female security officer told her she could be thrown in jail, the report said. Even the sergeant on duty did not accept her explanation that her utterance of the word ''bomb'' had been taken out of context.
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