Judge Ryan continued the October hearing to a later date, dashing the immediate hopes of the two defendants, as well as of family members who had gathered at the prison gates expecting their release.

In the LAX case last year, police said a dispatcher received an anonymous phone call saying that a “The flight to Las Vegas at 1045 Spirit Airlines 56 B gate is going to blow up.”

The corridors are divided into sections by heavy iron gates.

“Is this going to be make it a perfect setting? ... No. Not even the world outside these gates is.”

The 57-year-old - a Russian national and US permanent resident - slipped past Delta Airline agents who were helping other passengers at the gate.