{"id":343309,"date":"2026-03-08T14:08:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T19:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/kansas-city-airport-evacuated-as-authorities-investigate-potential-threat"},"modified":"2026-03-08T14:08:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T19:08:56","slug":"kansas-city-airport-evacuated-as-authorities-investigate-potential-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/kansas-city-airport-evacuated-as-authorities-investigate-potential-threat","title":{"rendered":"Kansas Metropolis airport evacuated as authorities examine potential menace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB \">KANSAS CITY &#8212; <\/span>Portions of Kansas City International Airport were being evacuated Sunday afternoon as authorities looked into a potential threat, the Kansas City Aviation Department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Airport spokesperson Jackson Overstreet said in an email that the threat was first reported at 11:15 a.m. local time and the entire terminal was evacuated. He said flights that have landed since then were being held on the taxiway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">FBI spokesperson Dixon Land said in an email to The Associated Press that the \u201cFBI is aware of the incident and our personnel are working with airport and law enforcement officials to determine the credibility of the threat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Logan Hawley, 29, said he was waiting to board a flight to Texas when he noticed a swarm of police and K9 units inside the terminal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cSuddenly there was an airport worker saying \u2018immediately evacuate,\u2019 people got up fast and rushed out of there,\u201d Hawley said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The group of roughly 2,000 people were ushered onto the tarmac.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/wireStory\/kansas-city-airport-evacuated-authorities-including-fbi-investigate-130881758\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KANSAS CITY &#8212; Portions of Kansas City International Airport were being evacuated Sunday afternoon as authorities looked into a potential threat, the Kansas City Aviation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":343121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20967,1923,20971,20969,20966,20968,20972,20965,20970,1679,102],"class_list":["post-343309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-airport-spokesperson","tag-federal-bureau-of-investigation","tag-jackson-overstreet","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-metropolis-airport","tag-kansas-metropolis-aviation-division","tag-kansas-metropolis-worldwide-airport","tag-land","tag-logan-hawley","tag-spokesperson","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343311,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343309\/revisions\/343311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}