{"id":385,"date":"2025-08-25T15:10:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T15:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/?p=385"},"modified":"2025-09-08T08:53:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T08:53:16","slug":"american-airlines-flight-makes-emergency-landing-after-passengers-device-catches-fire-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/25\/american-airlines-flight-makes-emergency-landing-after-passengers-device-catches-fire-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"American Airlines flight makes emergency landing after passenger&#039;s device catches fire: Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOUDOUN COUNTY, Va. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dcnewsnow.com\/news\/local-news\/virginia\/loudoun-county\/american-airlines-flight-makes-emergency-landing-at-dulles-after-passengers-device-catches-fire-officials\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WDCW<\/a>) \u2013 An American Airlines flight destined for Phoenix was forced to land at Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) on Saturday after a passenger&#8217;s device reportedly caught fire.<\/p>\n<p>American Airlines Flight 357 landed safely at Dulles, located just outside of Washington, D.C., at around 11:50 a.m. after the crew reported a fire in one of the passenger rows, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.<\/p>\n<div class=\"nlp-ignore-block article-content rich-text\">\n<aside class=\"promo-link\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dcnewsnow.com\/news\/local-news\/maryland\/first-human-case-of-screwworm-flesh-eating-parasite-in-maryland-report-says\/\" class=\"promo-link__link\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\tFirst human case of flesh-eating parasite identified in Maryland, report says\t<\/a><br \/>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a statement to Nexstar&#8217;s WDCW, an American Airlines spokesperson said smoke was spotted coming from &#8220;a customer&#8217;s device&#8221; and that the crew &#8220;quickly contained&#8221; it before landing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We apologize to our customers for the inconvenience this caused and thank our crew for their professionalism,&#8221; the airline said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>Officials did not specify what kind of device the customer had or what caused it to begin to smoke.<\/p>\n<p>Responders greeted the aircraft at Dulles, per standard procedure, to help passengers deboard the plane, American Airlines said. The passengers were accommodated on alternative flights, according to the carrier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOUDOUN COUNTY, Va. (WDCW) \u2013 An American Airlines flight destined for Phoenix was forced to land at Washington ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}