{"id":394049,"date":"2026-04-12T01:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T01:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/394049\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T01:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T01:08:12","slug":"man-attacks-us-military-aircraft-with-axe-causing-damage-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/394049\/","title":{"rendered":"Man attacks US military aircraft with axe, causing damage in Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Esra Tekin<\/p>\n<p>12 April 2026\u2022Update: 12 April 2026<\/p>\n<p>A man climbed onto a parked US military aircraft at Shannon Airport in Ireland on Saturday and damaged the fuselage and wing with an axe.<\/p>\n<p>According to Irish media, the C-130 Hercules military transport plane departed from the US state of Kansas, stopped in Canada, and landed at Shannon Airport in Ireland on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect breached the airport\u2019s perimeter fence, entered the area where the aircraft was parked, climbed onto it, and struck it with an axe.<\/p>\n<p>The incident caused airport operations to pause for about 30 minutes before armed police intervened.<\/p>\n<p>Irish police (Garda) said the suspect is a man in his 40s and is in custody, with an investigation ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities confirmed the aircraft sustained damage, which airport officials described as significant.<\/p>\n<p>US military aircraft at Shannon Airport have been targeted in three separate incidents since last May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Esra Tekin 12 April 2026\u2022Update: 12 April 2026 A man climbed onto a parked US military aircraft at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,174472],"class_list":["post-394049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}