{"id":129706,"date":"2026-01-12T01:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T01:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/129706\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T01:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T01:15:09","slug":"lighting-issue-temporarily-closes-runway-at-san-diego-international-airport-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/129706\/","title":{"rendered":"Lighting issue temporarily closes runway at San Diego International Airport \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lighting problem discovered during a routine afternoon inspection temporarily closed the runway at San Diego International Airport Sunday afternoon, an airport spokesman confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The issue, traced to \u201cedge lighting\u201d along the airport\u2019s lone runway, had maintenance crews racing to make repairs before nightfall. They were able to fix the problem in about 35 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do daily routine checks of the runway lighting system and they came across something they didn\u2019t like, so they had to close the runway in order to do repair work on the lighting system,\u201d said Jonathan Heller, an airport representative.<\/p>\n<p>The runway was closed about 3:30 p.m., Heller said, and was reopened about 4:05 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement made by the Federal Aviation Administration, the short outage delayed departures to San Diego by 40 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lighting problem discovered during a routine afternoon inspection temporarily closed the runway at San Diego International Airport&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,23,74,84,76,75,3055,1696],"class_list":{"0":"post-129706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-local-news","10":"tag-san-diego","11":"tag-san-diego-county","12":"tag-san-diego-headlines","13":"tag-san-diego-news","14":"tag-south-county","15":"tag-top-stories-sdut"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}