{"id":43094,"date":"2025-08-04T15:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T15:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/43094\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T15:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T15:23:08","slug":"confused-passengers-evacuated-from-brisbane-domestic-airport-and-told-to-re-screen-after-metal-detector-fault-queensland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/43094\/","title":{"rendered":"Confused passengers evacuated from Brisbane domestic airport and told to re-screen after metal detector fault | Queensland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Passengers have been evacuated from Brisbane<\/a> domestic airport and flights have been delayed after a fault with a single metal detector prompted both travellers and staff to be re-screened by security.<\/p>\n

Pictures on social media showed large crowds at the airport, with one person saying the \u201centire place has ground to a halt\u201d.<\/p>\n

brisbane chaos<\/a><\/p>\n

In a statement on Monday, the airport said all people within the terminal were being re-screened \u201cdue to a technical fault with a single metal detector\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fault was quickly identified and there is no safety or security threat,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHowever, it will take some time to rescreen all passengers and staff, delaying flights.\u201d<\/p>\n

One passenger, Craig MacLean, said everyone had boarded his 3.40pm flight to Cairns when they were told there had been a security breach and the entire domestic airport was being evacuated.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were thousands and thousands all funnelling outside,\u201d he said. \u201cNow [they\u2019re] all outside and waiting on the process of everyone having to come back through.\u201d<\/p>\n

Everyone stayed calm, but there was mass confusion as people were told to come forward for screening but then turned away by security, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a nightmare trying to navigate to the screening area because there are just so many people here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Craig MacLean, a passenger booked on a flight to Cairns, said it was a \u2018nightmare\u2019 trying to navigate the airport\u2019s screening area. Photograph: Craig MacLean\/X<\/p>\n

Another traveller, Zachariah Kelly, was on the first flight to take off to Sydney and said the delay was around two hours and thirty minutes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were already all boarded and waiting for about 40 minutes before the captain told us to get off,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere wasn\u2019t much panic at the outside of the airport, but there was a lot of confusion \u2013 nobody really knew what was going on until [Brisbane] put out that statement on a technical fault with a scanner.\u201d<\/p>\n

The airport said it apologised for the inconvenience and thanked passengers for their patience and understanding.<\/p>\n

Brisbane\u2019s international terminal is not affected by the issue, the statement said.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the airport announced it had become the first airport in the world to complete a security assessment under a new International Air Transport Association program.<\/p>\n

The certification involved an airport site visit in June and a full audit of its aviation security, according to the airport\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

The airport, Australia\u2019s third-busiest, has direct connections to 62 domestic destinations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Passengers have been evacuated from Brisbane domestic airport and flights have been delayed after a fault with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-43094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}