{"id":182811,"date":"2026-03-08T04:01:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T04:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/182811\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T04:01:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T04:01:45","slug":"nashville-flight-to-fort-lauderdale-forced-to-divert-due-to-security-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/182811\/","title":{"rendered":"Nashville flight to Fort Lauderdale forced to divert due to \u2018security\u2019 concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Miami Herald;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"Miami Herald\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/92470c90-34ef-11eb-bd77-23f1e090d6ce.png\"\/><\/a>Sat, March 7, 2026 at 9:34 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"759\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/7208816a56dfc7c8b98a99732beb8cb7.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A Southwest Airlines gate at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Thursday, June 1, 2017.<\/p>\n<p> (Emily Michot\/emichot@miamiherald.com)<\/p>\n<p>A Southwest Airlines flight from Nashville to Fort Lauderdale was forced to divert to Atlanta on Friday evening after a possible security concern on board.<\/p>\n<p>Flight 2094 landed safely at Hartsfield\u2011Jackson Atlanta International Airport, where law enforcement boarded the aircraft and removed a passenger. Video circulating on social media shows tense moments inside the cabin as passengers were instructed to put their heads down and raise their hands while armed officers entered the plane.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe appreciate the professionalism of our Flight Crew and sincerely apologize to our Customers for the significant delay,\u201d a Southwest spokesperson said in a statement to the Miami Herald.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta police removed the customer from the aircraft, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlantanewsfirst.com\/2026\/03\/07\/southwest-flight-diverts-atlanta-airport-after-security-matter-airline-says\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:WANF in Atlanta;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">WANF in Atlanta<\/a> reports that FBI Atlanta found no credible threat and no charges were filed. It is unclear what caused the security concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Passengers boarded another aircraft operating under the same flight number and continued on to Fort Lauderdale, arriving just before 3:30 a.m. Saturday, according to Southwest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sat, March 7, 2026 at 9:34 PM UTC A Southwest Airlines gate at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[7849,86167,249,251,250,86168,64756,3850],"class_list":{"0":"post-182811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-international-airport","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale","11":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","12":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news","13":"tag-security-concern","14":"tag-security-concerns","15":"tag-southwest-airlines"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182811","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=182811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}