{"id":6276,"date":"2023-12-02T10:17:35","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T10:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=6276"},"modified":"2023-12-02T10:17:35","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T10:17:35","slug":"passenger-climbs-on-aircraft-wing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/02\/passenger-climbs-on-aircraft-wing\/","title":{"rendered":"Passenger climbs on aircraft wing\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Agencies &#8211; Sudan Events<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A passenger on board a plane was taken to hospital after opening the emergency exit door and climbing onto the wing.<\/p>\n<p>A 38-year-old man was found &#8220;incoherent and not fully aware of his surroundings&#8221;, police said, after he had jumped to the ground and was captured by staff near the plane in New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>The Southwest Airlines flight had not yet taken off from Louis Armstrong International Airport at that point on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no indication that the man left anything on the plane, nor was he found in possession of any weapons of any type,&#8221; Jefferson Parish Sheriff&#8217;s Office said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is not expected to face any criminal charges locally, however the investigation has been referred to federal authorities. No one was injured during the incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to reports the man had been arrested, police said he was actually taken to hospital as officers believed he was &#8220;suffering from a mental health emergency&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the flight was cancelled following the incident, but NBC News, Sky News&#8217; US partner network, reported the flight did eventually depart to its final destination of Baltimore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agencies &#8211; Sudan Events A passenger on board a plane was taken to hospital after opening the emergency exit door and climbing onto the wing. A 38-year-old man was found &#8220;incoherent and not fully aware of his surroundings&#8221;, police said, after he had jumped to the ground and was captured by staff near the plane &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6278,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6276\/revisions\/6278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}