{"id":395319,"date":"2026-03-28T19:05:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T09:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/dc-air-traffic-control-evacuated-odor-second-time\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T19:05:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T09:05:40","slug":"not-again-strong-odor-evacuates-dc-air-traffic-control-for-2nd-time-this-month-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=395319","title":{"rendered":"Not Again: &#8220;Strong Odor&#8221; Evacuates DC Air Traffic Control For 2nd Time This Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The presence of a strong chemical-type smell within the air traffic control facility at the capital of the United States has resulted in disruptions at three major airports in the area. This includes the major international airport in the area &#8211; <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256499\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/washington-dulles-international-airport\/\"  >Washington Dulles International Airport<\/a><\/span> (IAD), along with the smaller airports of <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"264018\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/washington-national-airport\/\"  >Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport<\/a><\/span> (DCA) and <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"257736\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/baltimore-washington-international-thurgood-marshall-airport\/\"  >Baltimore\/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport<\/a><\/span>(BWI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A similar incident recorded two weeks ago was caused by an overheating circuit board, which had to be replaced.<\/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":[6421,396,475,1642,1074,423,11272,1073],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-traffic-control-tower","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-baltimore-washington-international-thurgood-marshall-airport","category-ronald-reagan-washington-national-airport","category-united-states","category-washington-d-c","category-washington-dulles-international-airport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395319","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=395319"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395466,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395319\/revisions\/395466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=395319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=395319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}