{"id":178866,"date":"2025-02-23T02:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T16:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/passenger-joke-panic-american-airlines-flight\/"},"modified":"2025-02-23T02:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T16:00:15","slug":"how-a-passengers-joke-caused-panic-on-american-airlines-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=178866","title":{"rendered":"How A Passenger&#8217;s Joke Caused Panic On American Airlines Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 7, an             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254833\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/american-airlines\/\"  ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.simpleflyingimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/american_airlines_icon.png?fit=contain&#038;h=22&#038;w=22\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>American Airlines<\/a><\/span>flight traveling from Austin, Texas, to Charlotte, North Carolina, faced an unexpected delay due to a WiFi hotspot with an alarming name. Scheduled to depart around 1:40 p.m., the flight was halted when passengers noticed the hotspot named, \u201cThere is a bomb on the flight.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Airlines flight was delayed four hours after a false bomb threat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,636,2813,13240,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aircraft","category-american-airlines","category-bomb-threat","category-commercial-aviation","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178867,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178866\/revisions\/178867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}