{"id":182418,"date":"2026-03-07T20:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T20:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/182418\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T20:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T20:28:08","slug":"video-shows-passengers-with-hands-in-air-as-fll-bound-flight-diverted-over-reported-security-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/182418\/","title":{"rendered":"Video shows passengers with hands in air as FLL-bound flight diverted over reported security scare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0March 7, 2026 at 3:03 PM<\/p>\n<p>Video courtesy: The FellasVideo shows moments FLL-bound flight was diverted after possible security threat in Atlanta Video shows passengers with hands in air on Fort Lauderdale-bound flight diverted in Atlanta <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">ATLANTA \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flightaware.com\/live\/flight\/SWA2094\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.flightaware.com\/live\/flight\/SWA2094\">Southwest Airlines Flight 2094<\/a>, bound for Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, was diverted to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport Friday evening following a possible security concern, the airline confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/03\/07\/video-muestra-a-pasajeros-con-las-manos-en-alto-mientras-vuelo-con-destino-a-fll-es-desviado-por-presunta-alerta-de-seguridad\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/03\/07\/video-muestra-a-pasajeros-con-las-manos-en-alto-mientras-vuelo-con-destino-a-fll-es-desviado-por-presunta-alerta-de-seguridad\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A Southwest spokesperson said customers were reaccommodated on another aircraft with the same flight number and continued on to Fort Lauderdale, arriving just before 3:30 a.m. Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe appreciate the professionalism of our flight crew and sincerely apologize to our customers for the significant delay,\u201d the spokesperson wrote. \u201cNothing is more important to Southwest than the safety of its customers and employees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Video obtained from TikTok user <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@username66788752\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@username66788752\">The Fellas<\/a> captured the tense moments inside the cabin as crew members prepared to divert the flight and told travelers to keep their hands visible. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Additional video showed authorities with K-9s searching the area around the plane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officials have not released details about the alleged threat, but the airline said the diversion was carried out as a precaution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Atlanta police assisted federal partners during the incident. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities have referred questions about the situation to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">No other details were immediately released. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Ryan Mackey\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/8725e99c-e445-48a0-bd.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Ryan Mackey <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Ryan Mackey is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born on Long Island, New York, and has lived in Sunrise, Florida since 1994.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0March 7, 2026 at 3:03 PM Video courtesy: The FellasVideo shows moments FLL-bound flight was diverted after possible&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-182418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}