{"id":52533,"date":"2025-12-05T00:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T00:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/52533\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T00:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T00:09:11","slug":"police-investigate-potential-security-threat-on-plane-carrying-pittsburgh-symphony-members-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/52533\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate \u2018potential security threat\u2019 on plane carrying Pittsburgh Symphony members \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Allegheny County Police investigated a \u201cpotential security threat\u201d on board a plane that was carrying members of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Bob Kerlik, Director of Public Affairs for Allegheny County Airport Authority, said that the potential threat happened on board a Sun Country Airlines flight that landed safely at the airport Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The communications manager for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Keene Carter, said that the orchestra, supporting staff and several donors arrived at Pittsburgh International Airport from a sold-out performance at Carnegie Hall in New York City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Allegheny County Police said that a note deemed potentially threatening was discovered at the airport. After identifying the plane, the Allegheny County Police Bomb Squad conducted a sweep of the plane and passengers out of an abundance of caution. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Police said the passengers and plane were cleared, and it was later determined the note was not threatening in nature. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Kerlik said that airport operations were not affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cWe are grateful to the authorities for their swift response and professionalism,\u201d Keene said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Allegheny County Police investigated a \u201cpotential security threat\u201d on board a plane that was carrying members of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[29686,869,29683,4931,4930,29687,139,859,73,75,74,21171,29684,29685,3823,420,860],"class_list":["post-52533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-carnegie_hall","tag-channel_11","tag-channel_levin","tag-gabriela","tag-gabrielle_deluca","tag-new_york_city","tag-news","tag-ott_news","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh_international_airport","tag-pittsburgh_symphony_orchestra","tag-sun_country_airlines","tag-susan","tag-video","tag-wpxi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}