Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport

A woman traveller wearing a pair of gun-shaped high heels and carrying two bracelets that were lined with realistic-looking bullets in her carry-on bag had to delay her flight and abandon the 'dangerous items' after security agents spotted them.

More than 100 flights were grounded at airports along the US East Coast on Saturday due to a problem with a flight-tracking system in the Washington, DC area, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

A woman traveller wearing a pair of gun-shaped high heels and carrying two bracelets that were lined with realistic-looking bullets in her carry-on bag had to delay her flight and abandon the 'dangerous items' after security agents spotted them.

More than 100 flights were grounded at airports along the US East Coast on Saturday due to a problem with a flight-tracking system in the Washington, DC area, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.