On Wednesday, just after noon, Dallas-Fort Worth airport faced a partial ground stop due to a security issue on American Airlines flight 2484 heading to New York LaGuardia.
Airport police boarded the aircraft. The Boeing 737-800 was parked away from terminal buildings and surrounded by multiple airport police vehicles and emergency responders.
Passengers were evacuated from the aircraft and transported away from the area via buses. Officers questioned passengers, asking if anyone had overheard or made remarks that could be interpreted as threatening.
DFW GROUND STOP: Here is a view from inside the plane where officials said a "possible security issue" prompted a ground stop at DFW Airport.
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According to American Airlines,
Earlier today, a potential security incident was reported on board American Airlines flight 2484 prior to departure at Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW). Law enforcement responded, inspected the aircraft and cleared it to depart to New York (LGA). Safety and security are our top priorities, and we are in touch with our customers to apologize for the disruption. We thank our team members and law enforcement agencies for their professionalism.
By 2 p.m., security checks were completed. Passengers were brought to the A terminal around 2:30 p.m. and the flight departed about 4:30 p.m. The show of force was significant. So was holding passengers. It doesn’t appear there was a real security risk.
We should probably speculate, wildly, on here, right? Like, that’s what VFTW is here for. Anyone?? Was it UFOs?!
A woman on the plane reported to the crew that she heard a passenger say the word bomb.
My God Gary WTF – you act like it was overkill and there was no threat. Trust me police and airlines don’t do this unless there was a reason. Maybe a phoned in threat. Obviously it won’t be made public so I agree w 1990 – you serve no one with the rampart speculation and guessing.
Man this blog used to be informative. Now it is clickbait, Reddit postings (yeah they are believable), “National enquirer” articles and of course the outage over anything anti Israel or when you don’t feel people get what they are “entitled to”. So sad.
You know what it isn’t only OMAAT that has surpassed you but I value the info on TPG more. You have become a punchline dude.
I don’t see Gary doing and rampant speculation or guessing here. He’s simply reporting the details of a major interruption at an airport. Yes, VFTW may have expanded into non-card/miles collections, but I see it as Gary implying try to maintain regular engagement with his audience in various travel-related news.
@AC — I’m still waiting for posts (and comments) on Newark’s recent ATC issues and the Qatari 747 ‘gift,’ each of which I think are more relevant to this ‘community’ than the current post, but it ain’t my website. Gary’s gonna Gary!
why such griping about what the Site Owner posts? As we said in radio, “You got two knobs, turn them any way you want.”
@Hall Decker — Griping about griping… now who’s the knob!
My theory is some AA flight attendant was pissed about having to provide predeparture beverages, a passenger sassed and things went south fast. LOL!
omfg parker LOL!!!! rofl that is so funny
@ Parker
Great one ! …. Very credible, because the flight was originally headed in a northeast direction before things went ‘south’ ! …. lmao…
It’s so sad this country is so huge that it precludes a more complete rail system akin to Europe…
Gary, I am glad you posted this article. I was at JFK at that time. We couldn’t understand the extensive flight delays. We were exasperated. The weather wasn’t that bad. Now I understand that there might have been behind-the-scenes problems that us passengers were not made aware of. Our safety comes first and it’s best to err on the side of caution. Thank you, Gary.