{"id":96825,"date":"2024-07-29T13:46:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T03:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=96825"},"modified":"2024-07-29T13:46:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T03:46:16","slug":"adelaide-airport-main-terminal-evacuated-following-security-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=96825","title":{"rendered":"Adelaide Airport main terminal evacuated following security breach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Adelaide Airport&#8217;s main terminal has been evacuated following a security breach, causing flight delays and major disruptions as passengers are re-screened.<br>Airport management said it believed the security breach occurred about 11am, when passengers arriving on a regional flight entered the terminal &#8220;without being adequately screened&#8221;.<br>&#8220;An orderly evacuation of the terminal has been undertaken and re-screening of passengers will commence shortly,&#8221; it said.<br>The airport said passengers should expect some flight delays, and check with their carrier for the latest information.<br><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au\/5ed13be7dceb1c6c2e9a443f7afa0d1c?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&amp;cropH=1080&amp;cropW=1440&amp;xPos=88&amp;yPos=0&amp;width=862&amp;height=647 543w, https:\/\/live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au\/5ed13be7dceb1c6c2e9a443f7afa0d1c?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&amp;cropH=1077&amp;cropW=1616&amp;xPos=0&amp;yPos=1&amp;width=862&amp;height=575\" src=\"https:\/\/live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au\/5ed13be7dceb1c6c2e9a443f7afa0d1c?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&amp;cropH=1077&amp;cropW=1616&amp;xPos=0&amp;yPos=1&amp;width=862&amp;height=575\" alt=\"A crowd of people at Adelaide Airport.\">Passengers at the site are being re-screened.<em>(ABC News: Briana Fiore)<\/em><br>Hundreds of people are currently packed into the departure floor waiting to go into security screening.<br>Re-screening of passengers has begun at the site.<br>One passenger wrote on social media that they were 20 minutes from departure, but were now expecting a wait of several hours.<br>&#8220;Everyone has to leave for re-screening! Even those on planes about to depart,&#8221; the person wrote.<br><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au\/f2246f446e7013326ff212dfbec6c1cf?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&amp;cropH=1080&amp;cropW=1440&amp;xPos=176&amp;yPos=0&amp;width=862&amp;height=647 543w, https:\/\/live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au\/f2246f446e7013326ff212dfbec6c1cf?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&amp;cropH=1077&amp;cropW=1616&amp;xPos=0&amp;yPos=3&amp;width=862&amp;height=575\" src=\"https:\/\/live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au\/f2246f446e7013326ff212dfbec6c1cf?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&amp;cropH=1077&amp;cropW=1616&amp;xPos=0&amp;yPos=3&amp;width=862&amp;height=575\" alt=\"A crowd of people at Adelaide Airport.\">There are major disruptions and flight delays.<em>(ABC News: Briana Fiore)<\/em><br><br>Airport passenger Roy Abraham said he was moments away from boarding when the evacuation began.<br>&#8220;I was probably going to board in about a minute&#8217;s time and then this happened so there were probably people already on the plane who had to get off to,&#8221; he said.<br>&#8220;All the pilots had to get off the planes as well, so there was probably thousands of people behind me.<br>&#8220;We weren&#8217;t really sure what was going on, there was a lot of chatter as you can imagine.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adelaide Airport&#8217;s main terminal has been evacuated following a security breach, causing flight delays and major disruptions as passengers are re-screened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":96826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[3493,35],"tags":[265],"class_list":["post-96825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adelaide-airport","category-breaking-news","tag-adelaide"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96825","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96829,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96825\/revisions\/96829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}