{"id":429942,"date":"2026-05-17T05:32:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T19:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-congressman-american-eagle-crj900-wing-evacuation-smoke\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T05:32:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T19:32:24","slug":"us-congressman-on-american-eagle-crj900-forced-to-evacuate-via-wing-as-smoke-fills-cabin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=429942","title":{"rendered":"US Congressman On American Eagle CRJ900 Forced To Evacuate Via Wing As Smoke Fills Cabin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A scheduled<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"257838\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/american-eagle\/\"  >American Eagle<\/a><\/span> flight between Washington, D.C., and Kansas City ended up requiring an <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256842\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/emergency-landing\/\"  >emergency landing<\/a><\/span> after cabin smoke was detected. The flight, operating as <strong>AA5318<\/strong>, had a US Congressman on board, who with all the other occupants of the aircraft, had to evacuate the plane after it was safely on the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US Congressman found himself in a terrifying situation when the American Eagle flight he was on declared an emergency landing due to smoke.<\/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":[396,476,636,1403,3143,3142,3366,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-american-airlines","category-american-eagle","category-cabin-smoke","category-evacuation","category-smoke","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429942","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=429942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429965,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429942\/revisions\/429965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=429942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=429942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=429942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}