The FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office announced they foiled a bombing plot at a Kansas airport by arresting avionics technician Terry Lee Loewen Friday morning.

They say he planned to attack Wichita Mid-Continental Airport where he worked.

Barry Grissom is the Kansas U.S. Attorney.

(SOUNDBITE) BARRY GRISSOM, U.S. ATTORNEY FOR KANSAS SAYING:

"Mr. Loewen spent months developing a plan to use his access card to the airport to drive a car loaded with explosives to the terminal. It's alleged he planned to pull the trigger himself on the explosives and die as a martyr."

Federal agents arrested Loewen without incident after he tried to drive onto the tarmac with a truck he thought was full of explosives. Undercover agents had actually provided him with inert material.

(SOUNDBITE) BARRY GRISSOM, U.S. ATTORNEY FOR KANSAS SAYING:

"I want to express in the strongest terms possible, at no time was the airport perimeter's breached and at no time was any citize