{"id":429979,"date":"2026-09-08T22:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T22:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/429979\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T22:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T22:08:13","slug":"houston-bound-southwest-flight-diverted-to-bwi-airport-after-bird-strike-near-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/429979\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston-bound Southwest flight diverted to BWI Airport after bird strike near D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, Md. (WBFF) \u2014 A Southwest Airlines flight bound for Houston, Texas, was diverted to Baltimore\/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport Tuesday afternoon after the plane struck birds following its departure from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.<\/p>\n<p>Southwest Airlines Flight 1739 landed safely at BWI Airport around 3:15 p.m. on Sept. 8 after the crew reported hitting birds while departing from DCA. A Southwest Airlines spokesperson told FOX45 News that the pilots followed procedures.<\/p>\n<p>ALSO READ | <a href=\"https:\/\/foxbaltimore.com\/news\/local\/airbag-theft-spree-glen-burnie-odenton-crofton-maryland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Airbag theft spree hits Glen Burnie, Odenton &amp; Crofton<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Boeing 737 MAX-8 was headed to William P. Hobby Airport in Houston, officials said. Passengers will be flown to Houston on a different aircraft, according to Southwest Airlines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nothing is more important to Southwest than the Safety of its Customers and Employees,&#8221; a Southwest Airlines spokesperson said via email.<\/p>\n<p>The FAA said it will be investigating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, Md. (WBFF) \u2014 A Southwest Airlines flight bound for Houston, Texas, was diverted to Baltimore\/Washington&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-429979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429979","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=429979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}