{"id":7233,"date":"2010-08-20T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T11:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/american-airlines-flight-grounded-after-hijack-threat\/"},"modified":"2014-08-05T09:17:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T09:17:34","slug":"american-airlines-flight-grounded-after-hijack-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/american-airlines-flight-grounded-after-hijack-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"American Airlines&#8217; Flight Grounded After Hijack Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"American Airlines Jet Grounded after  threat\" src=\"\/miles-away\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2010\/8\/aathreat.jpg\" alt=\"American  Airlines Jet Grounded after threat\" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Passengers say the situation was handled calmly <\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, a hijack threat stopped an American Airlines flight right before takeoff, leaving the New York-bound plane sitting on the tarmac for a few good hours while it was inspected and passengers were removed for further examination.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The FBI decided later that the threat, made by telephone, was not credible but in the wake of the 9\/11 attacks and airline scares made in the last year, the threat still rattled nerves as it played out live on national TV.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Police were examining the hijacking threat and what their motivation might have been. While passengers recounted the scene as calm, witnesses say a man and woman seated in the back of the Boeing 767 were taken off in handcuffs. However, they were quickly released and permitted to rebook flights.<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nSource: Associated Pre<\/em><em>ss <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; \u00a0 Passengers say the situation was handled calmly &nbsp; On Thursday, a hijack threat stopped an American Airlines flight right before takeoff, leaving the New York-bound plane sitting on the tarmac for a few good hours while it was inspected and passengers were removed for further examination. &nbsp; The FBI decided later that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97168690,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7233\/revisions\/97168690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}