{"id":382810,"date":"2026-03-08T13:26:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T03:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/swat-team-deployed-southwest-airlines-flight-alleged-bomb-threat\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T13:26:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T03:26:32","slug":"security-scare-swat-team-deployed-on-southwest-airlines-flight-after-alleged-bomb-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=382810","title":{"rendered":"Security Scare: SWAT Team Deployed On Southwest Airlines Flight After Alleged Bomb Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A scheduled <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"44355\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/southwest-airlines\/\"  >Southwest Airlines<\/a><\/span> flight on Friday evening took a frightening turn when there was a &#8216;security scare&#8217; that led to the aircraft being diverted and visited by a SWAT team on arrival. The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"136182\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/fbi\/\"  >FBI<\/a><\/span> later said there was no credible threat, the passenger who made a <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256844\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/bomb-threat\/\"  >bomb threat<\/a><\/span> will be charged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Southwest Airlines flight was forced to divert and met by a SWAT team after a passenger made a bomb threat, causing a tense situation onboard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"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":[396,476,2813,2675,17410,645,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-bomb-threat","category-fort-lauderdale-hollywood-international-airport","category-nashville-international-airport","category-southwest-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382810","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=382810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382811,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382810\/revisions\/382811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=382810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=382810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=382810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}