{"id":41178,"date":"2025-04-18T01:32:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T06:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=41178"},"modified":"2025-04-18T04:22:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T09:22:05","slug":"passengers-on-southwest-flight-evacuated-after-engine-fire-forces-planes-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=41178","title":{"rendered":"Passengers on Southwest flight evacuated after engine fire forces plane’s return"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

HOUSTON — A Southwest Airlines<\/a> flight had to be evacuated on Thursday after an engine fire forced it to return to a Houston airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The flight was leaving Hobby Airport on its way to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, when it was forced to return around 11:15 a.m. due to the fire, according to the Houston Fire Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the plane landed, firefighters extinguished the blaze as well as a small grass fire near the runway, the fire department said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No injuries were reported. The flight crew helped the 134 passengers evacuate the plane, Southwest Airlines said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Passengers exited the aircraft on a taxiway at the airport, the Federal Aviation Administration said in an email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cause of the fire was being investigated, the FAA said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The airline was working to get all passengers to their final destination in Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe appreciate the professionalism of our flight crew in responding to this situation. Nothing is more important to Southwest than the safety of our customers and employees,\u201d Southwest Airlines said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The engine fire comes as air travel is under heightened scrutiny following a series of crashes and mishaps<\/a>. Federal officials have tried to reassure travelers that flying is the safest mode of transportation, and statistics support that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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HOUSTON — A Southwest Airlines flight had to be evacuated on Thursday after an engine fire forced it to return to a Houston airport. The flight was leaving Hobby Airport on its way to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, when it was forced to return around 11:15 a.m. due to the fire, according to the Houston Fire Department. When […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":41179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[1354,2837,1646],"class_list":["post-41178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-fire","tag-flight","tag-return"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41180,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41178\/revisions\/41180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}