(Recasts and updates throughout with evacuation of Southwest flight after written threat, adds airline group reaction)
WASHINGTON, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Two senior House Democrats urged the Federal Aviation Administration on Monday to take steps to prevent the use of aircraft to transport people intent on violently disrupting the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.
Hours after the letter was sent, Southwest Airlines said 95 passengers and six crew members had been evacuated from a flight into Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport from Phoenix after crew identified a written threat upon arrival earlier this evening. Southwest did not provide details on the note or the threat and said no arrests have been reported.
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A plane slid off a taxiway at Baltimore–Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport on Thursday morning and passengers were moved onto shuttle buses. A Spirit Airlines Airbus 300 series plane arriving from Las Vegas slid off a taxiway at BWI at about 6:20 a.m., officials said. One-hundred-eleven people were on board and no one was hurt. “As the aircraft taxied to… Maryland Jan 26, 2020
A passenger who recently traveled to China and was showing flu-like symptoms was escorted off a plane at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport Saturday afternoon “out of an abundance of caution,” airline and health officials say. Medical officers escorted the passenger, who had been to Beijing, off of a Southwest flight from Las Vegas. The Maryland Department of Health.
Two senior House Democrats urged the Federal Aviation Administration on Monday to take steps to prevent the use of aircraft to transport people intent on violently disrupting the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.
Nearly 100 passengers were evacuated from a Southwest Airlines plane at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport after receiving a written threat.
Spokespeople from Southwest and the FBI's Baltimore office confirmed to FOX Business that the threat occurred Monday night.