Authorities charged an Army expert for attempting to board a plane with a military-grade explosive at a Texas airport in an incident official downplayed as nothing nefarious.

Trey Scott Atwater, 30, of Hope Mills, North Carolina, was taken into custody.

Transportation Security Administration agents spotty the item in his carry-on through X-ray screening at a security checkpoint at the Midland International Airport, Midland police and city officials said.

The material was recognized as an explosive; though it was determined there was no way to ignite it as there was no detonator or initiator, a law enforcement official told CNN on condition of anonymity. The official was not authorized to release the info to the media.

Atwater was an active-duty army soldier, the official said.

The incident push the evacuation and temporary-closure of a part of an airport terminal, authorities said.

"At no-time was there any risk to the people at Midland International Airport or the community of Midland, Texas," Mark Morgan, an FBI spokesman, said in a report.

Atwater has been arrested on a federal count of trying to board an aircraft with an explosive, Morgan said.

An Emirates Airlines flight from London was belated for more than an hour after a passenger demanded to leave the plane, claiming he would be killed on the way to Dubai.

The passenger, believed to be an Iranian male, became nervous when he learned he would require a visa in order to enter the UAE, The National statement.

A witness told the report the man said he would be killed aboard the flight to the UAE.

The passenger was escorted from the Airplane by police, subsequent a security search of the airplane.

In a declaration, Emirates said it tried to accommodate travelers who feel they are weak to fly.

“Emirates can affirm that a traveler asked to be removed from EK004 from London to Dubai on October 16,” the state backed carrier said in an e-mail report.

In April, a British man was imprisoned for three years after triggering a bomb scare onboard an Etihad airliner on the way to London from Abu Dhabi.

The Etihad flight was diverted under fighter aircraft jet accompany to Stansted Airport after James Glen, 37, told a flight attendant that a fellow passenger had a gun and had "threatened to blow himself up.”

Two RAF Typhoon jets were snarled from a nearby military base to escort the aircraft, which had 163 passengers and 15 crew on board.

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