{"id":337343,"date":"2026-09-03T21:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T21:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/337343\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T21:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T21:54:10","slug":"american-airlines-flight-to-chicago-ohare-airport-aborts-takeoff-at-laguardia-in-new-york-city-after-apparent-bird-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/337343\/","title":{"rendered":"American Airlines flight to Chicago O&#8217;Hare airport aborts takeoff at LaGuardia in New York City after apparent bird strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jxTEW Poyse ouIFx uieav lqtkC HkWF HfYhe kGyAC \">The FAA briefly issued a ground stop at LGA following the bird strike.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WABC logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788472450_482_origin-wabc.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, September 3, 2026 9:11PM<\/p>\n<p>An American Airlines flight to Chicago O&#8217;Hare airport aborted takeoff at LaGuardia in New York City after an apparent bird strike.<\/p>\n<p>WLS<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">NEW YORK &#8212; An American Airlines flight aborted takeoff at LaGuardia Airport Thursday morning after the pilots reported a bird strike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The plane was still on the ground and was traveling nearly 140 mph when the pilots rejected the takeoff at 8:20 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">SEE ALSO:<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/post\/airplane-bird-strike-video-shows-passengers-iberia-plane-oxygen-masks-flight-madrid-paris\/17440859\/\" target=\"_blank\" dir=\"ltr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Bird strike forces emergency landing as smoke fills cabin, chaotic video shows<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Federal Aviation Administration said American Airlines Flight 392, a Boeing 737-800, was headed to Chicago O&#8217;Hare International Airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The FAA briefly issued a ground stop at LGA following the bird strike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The plane returned to the gate, and the FAA will investigate.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WABC-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The FAA briefly issued a ground stop at LGA following the bird strike. Thursday, September 3, 2026 9:11PM&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[126694,9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-337343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-126694","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}