{"id":94608732,"date":"2011-08-17T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/tsa-investigating-southwest-airline-firecracker-incident\/"},"modified":"2018-11-21T08:20:43","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T08:20:43","slug":"tsa-investigating-southwest-airline-firecracker-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/tsa-investigating-southwest-airline-firecracker-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"TSA Investigating Southwest Airline Firecracker Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TSA is investigating the Firecrackers Incident<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/flights\/cheap-flights-to-las-vegas-las-nevada\">Las Vegas flight<\/a><\/strong> dealt with difficultly Tuesday, the passengers of\u00a0<strong>Southwest Airlines<\/strong> flight\u00a02408 were delayed departure when a flight attendant found firecrackers stuffed beneath a seat.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Passengers were immediately deplaned while\u00a0<strong>TSA<\/strong>\u00a0investigated the incident by inspecting the plane and re-scanning luggage.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The plan touched down safely in Kansas City, M.O., only one hour behind schedule, said Ashley Dillon, a Southwest spokesperson.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Though no one has claimed the plastic bag full of firecrackers, TSA is still examining how the culprit evaded security and brought the prohibited pyrotechnics onto the aircraft.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/TRAVEL\/08\/17\/firecrackers.flight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CNN <\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TSA is investigating the Firecrackers Incident A Las Vegas flight dealt with difficultly Tuesday, the passengers of\u00a0Southwest Airlines flight\u00a02408 were delayed departure when a flight attendant found firecrackers stuffed beneath a seat. Passengers were immediately deplaned while\u00a0TSA\u00a0investigated the incident by inspecting the plane and re-scanning luggage. The plan touched down safely in Kansas City, M.O., [&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-94608732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608732","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=94608732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97201753,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608732\/revisions\/97201753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94608732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94608732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94608732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}