{"id":475498,"date":"2026-10-24T14:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T14:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/475498\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T14:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T14:32:11","slug":"smoke-reported-aboard-united-express-flight-at-bush-airport-prompting-emergency-evacuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/475498\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoke reported aboard United Express flight at Bush Airport, prompting emergency evacuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">HOUSTON \u2013 Smoke was reported aboard a United Express flight at George Bush Intercontinental Airport, prompting an emergency evacuation of the aircraft Saturday morning, according to authorities. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Mesa Airlines, which operates the flight for United Express, said a sensor alert indicated smoke in the cabin shortly after pushback. The airline said the evacuation was precautionary and said the crew conducted a safe, orderly exit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The Houston Fire Department confirmed multiple units responded to 3950 North Terminal Toad. The department said the smoke has been put out, and officials declared the aircraft \u201cfire safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">A passenger told KPRC 2 he was on United Flight 6153 when the cabin started to fill with smoke as the aircraft was taxiing for takeoff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Mesa said no injuries were reported. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Flight-tracking information from the Houston Airport System listed the Houston-to-Atlanta flight as diverted at IAH after it was scheduled to depart Terminal E at 7:20 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Mesa apologized for the disruption and said it would switch to a different aircraft to complete the flight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The cause of the smoke has not been released.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News Alerts<img alt=\"\"  loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" role=\"presentation\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792852331_906_kprc_breaking.webp\" width=\"234\" height=\"50\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf eUxjKG\">More Stories Like This In Our Email Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2013 Smoke was reported aboard a United Express flight at George Bush Intercontinental Airport, prompting an emergency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[20534,3002,6832,56,5417,58,57,17930,85774,2825,46853],"class_list":["post-475498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-bush-airport","tag-fires","tag-george-bush-intercontinental-airport","tag-houston","tag-houston-airport-system","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-iah","tag-mesa-airlines","tag-united-airlines","tag-united-express"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475498","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=475498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}