JFK, LAX ‘gun link’ eyed

Authorities in New York and Los Angeles are checking whether recent false gunman scares at JFK and Los Angeles International airports were attempts to see how authorities respond to such situations, sources told The Post.

No evidentiary link between the Aug. 14 incident at Kennedy and Sunday’s chaos at LAX has been established, but the similarities between the two cases are stark enough for officials to suspect someone may be looking for security weaknesses, a law-enforcement source told The Post. In both airports, passengers rushed past Transportation Security Administration screeners and “self-evacuated” onto tarmacs near aircraft.

The JFK incident has been blamed on a loud Olympics celebration, and the LAX scare to a man in a Zorro costume.