{"id":407778,"date":"2026-08-16T02:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T02:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/407778\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T02:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T02:24:14","slug":"houston-police-investigate-hazard-at-hobby-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/407778\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston police investigate &#8216;hazard&#8217; at Hobby Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/default-image.png\" alt=\"Livestream\" class=\"livestream-poster-image\" data-v-e2115db2=\"\"\/>     <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; Houston police responded to a reported bomb threat involving a plane at Hobby Airport on Saturday evening, officials say.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Houston police confirmed a call came in shortly before 7:30 p.m. about a &#8220;hazard&#8221; at the airport.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Hobby Airport later confirmed on social media that there was a report of a bomb threat involving a Southwest Airlines flight.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Southwest Airlines says, &#8220;Another flight on the ground was subject to a security screening at the request of local law enforcement, which resulted in holding for other inbound flights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Passengers at the airport shared updates on social media as they waited on the tarmac.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Houston police later said nothing was found, and they would be letting passengers deplane.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Southwest Airlines said operations were rolling again, and Hobby Airport said the airport remained operational.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The airport advises travelers to contact their airline for the latest flight information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Houston Police and social media posts from passengers.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/travel-news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Travel News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/top-stories\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top Stories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; Houston police responded to a reported bomb threat involving a plane at Hobby Airport on Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,223,2053,3019,216,393],"class_list":["post-407778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-travel-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}