{"id":55827,"date":"2026-03-08T21:33:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T21:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/55827"},"modified":"2026-03-08T21:33:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T21:33:54","slug":"kansas-city-international-airport-reopens-after-brief-closure-due-to-unspecified-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/55827","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City International Airport reopens after brief closure due to unspecified threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"min-height:300px\">\n<p><strong>Kansas City International Airport reopened on Sunday \u200bafternoon after a brief closure \u200cas authorities investigated a possible threat, the airport and \u200bfederal government said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe \u200bsecurity incident at @Fly_KansasCity is now \u2060clear and normal operations \u200bare resuming,\u201d U.S. Transportation Secretary \u200bSean Duffy wrote in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p>The Kansas City \u200bAviation Department said it \u200bevacuated sections of the airport in \u200cKansas \u2060City, Missouri, due to a potential threat. It said the evacuation was \u200binitiated at \u200baround \u206011:15 a.m. local time and that airport \u200bpolice worked with \u200bthe \u2060FBI to investigate.<\/p>\n<p>Almost 1 million passengers pass through \u2060each \u200bmonth, according to \u200bairport data.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/kansas-city-international-airport-reopens-after-brief-closure-due-to-unspecified-threat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City International Airport reopened on Sunday \u200bafternoon after a brief closure \u200cas authorities investigated a possible threat, the airport and \u200bfederal government said. \u201cThe \u200bsecurity incident at @Fly_KansasCity is now \u2060clear and normal operations \u200bare resuming,\u201d U.S. Transportation Secretary \u200bSean Duffy wrote in a post on X. The Kansas City \u200bAviation Department said it \u200bevacuated sections of the airport&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":16,"label":"Pakistan"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-content\/uploads\/1773005634_unnamed-file.jpg",750,369,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"frkhokhar@gmail.com","author_link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/author\/frkhokhargmail-com"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":16,"name":"Pakistan","slug":"pakistan","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":16,"taxonomy":"category","description":"All about Pakistan","parent":0,"count":2560,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":16,"category_count":2560,"category_description":"All about Pakistan","cat_name":"Pakistan","category_nicename":"pakistan","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}