{"id":475998,"date":"2026-10-25T04:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T04:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/475998\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T04:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T04:10:14","slug":"flight-set-to-depart-from-houston-evacuated-after-smoke-detected-in-cabin-airline-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/475998\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight set to depart from Houston evacuated after smoke detected in cabin, airline says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jxTEW Poyse ouIFx uieav lqtkC HkWF HfYhe kGyAC \">Images shared with ABC13 show that the plane&#8217;s evacuation slides were activated.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Eyewitness News and ABC13 originals around the clock<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KTRK logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792901413_300_origin-ktrk.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Saturday, October 24, 2026 11:07PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; A plane bound for Atlanta was evacuated shortly after leaving the gate at Houston&#8217;s Bush Intercontinental Airport due to reported smoke in the cabin, according to Mesa Airlines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The airline told ABC13 on Saturday morning that it performed a precautionary evacuation of flight UA6153 after a sensor alerted the crew to smoke in the cabin. Mesa said passengers and crew exited safely and reported no injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Mesa did not immediately say what set off the smoke detector.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Images obtained by ABC13 show the Mesa Airlines plane after evacuation.\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR zFTjo hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/19976658_102426-ktrk-mesa-airlines-smoke-in-plane-img.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Images obtained by ABC13 show the Mesa Airlines plane after evacuation.<\/p>\n<p>KTRK<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Video obtained by ABC13 showed emergency crews responding to the Embraer E175 jet, which had its emergency slides deployed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Mesa Airlines said passengers were transferred to another aircraft to complete the flight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">According to FlightAware, the passengers landed in Atlanta about three hours behind schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Images shared with ABC13 show that the plane&#8217;s evacuation slides were activated. Watch Eyewitness News and ABC13 originals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[161158,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-475998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-161158","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475998","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=475998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}