{"id":606286,"date":"2026-05-27T08:43:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T08:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/606286\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T08:43:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T08:43:27","slug":"east-midlands-airport-evacuated-after-concern-over-item-of-luggage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/606286\/","title":{"rendered":"East Midlands Airport evacuated after ‘concern’ over item of luggage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Holidaymakers reported having to wait on the tarmac on one of the hottest days of the year\"Aircraft<\/p>\n

Aircraft on the apron at East Midlands Airport, pictured from the Aircraft Control Tower.(Image: Joseph Raynor\/ Reach PLC)<\/p>\n

Passengers at East Midlands Airport<\/a> were evacuated after concerns about a checked-in piece of luggage.<\/p>\n

The Castle Donington<\/a> airport, in Leicestershire, was evacuated at about 9.30am on Tuesday, May 26.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for East Midlands Airport said: \u201cAs a precautionary measure, we evacuated our terminal this morning after our security screening equipment highlighted a concern with a checked-in item of luggage.<\/p>\n

“Investigations have now concluded that there is no risk and we are resuming normal operations, with passengers re-entering the terminal.<\/p>\n

“We apologise for any inconvenience, but the safety of our customers and staff is our number one priority.\u201d<\/p>\n

One passenger took to social media to ask why they had been evacuated onto the runway on “one of the hottest days of the year<\/a> and no shade or water and no updates from any staff”.<\/p>\n

Several others reported that planes were forced to circle the airport while the incident was dealt with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Holidaymakers reported having to wait on the tarmac on one of the hottest days of the year Aircraft…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,58860,59,2846,67137,2888,387,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-606286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-east-midlands-airport","tag-gb","tag-holidays","tag-leicestershire","tag-traffic-travel","tag-travel","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}