KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 The Kansas City International Airport terminal reopened Sunday afternoon, hours after it was evacuated while authorities looked into a potential threat, the Kansas City Aviation Department said.<\/p>\n
Airport spokesperson Jackson Overstreet said in an email shortly after 2 p.m. that the terminal was reopened. The evacuation began after a threat that surfaced around 11:15 a.m. Flights that landed after the evacuation were held on the taxiway during the shutdown, which Overstreet said lasted about two hours.<\/p>\n
In a social media post Sunday afternoon, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the incident was clear and \u201cnormal operations are resuming.\u201d<\/p>\n
FBI Director Kash Patel said on social media Sunday afternoon that the FBI reviewed the threat and determined it \u201cnot to be credible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Logan Hawley, 29, said he was waiting to board a flight to Texas when he noticed a swarm of police and K9 units inside the terminal.<\/p>\n
\u201cSuddenly there was an airport worker saying, \u2018Immediately evacuate.\u2019 People got up fast and rushed out of there,\u201d Hawley said.<\/p>\n
He said the group of roughly 2,000 people were ushered onto the tarmac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 The Kansas City International Airport terminal reopened Sunday afternoon, hours after it was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,7620,793,232145,4412,6946,48296,15961,4381,232144,3,20444,28387,795,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-511841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-evacuations","tag-general-news","tag-jackson-overstreet","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-city","tag-kash-patel","tag-ks-state-wire","tag-law-enforcement","tag-logan-hawley","tag-news","tag-sean-duffy","tag-u-s-federal-bureau-of-investigation","tag-u-s-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}