{"id":35671,"date":"2019-12-07T15:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=35671"},"modified":"2019-12-07T15:00:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T15:00:01","slug":"security-issue-revealed-to-be-a-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/security-issue-revealed-to-be-a-hoax\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Security issue\u2019 at Gatwick Airport plane revealed to be a hoax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Passengers have witnessed police officers board their EasyJet plane on the runway due to what was being referred to a \u201csafety-related\u201d problem<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The security threat, which seems to be concerned with the plane\u2019s aviation, has now been revealed to be a hoax.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Final update: Pilot advised it was a hoax.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Joel Smith (@Smithysays) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Smithysays\/status\/1203290902715936769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Some time before mid-day, flights on Gatwick Airport witnessed delays just as police was arriving at the tarmac.<\/p>\n<p>Later, it was claimed that Polish Police had received a general threat about EasyJet.<\/p>\n<p>This led to police boarding the EZY8512 plane, which had arrived from Poland, to check for any signs of danger in its aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>A passenger released a video on Twitter showing the officers at the front of the plane.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/kieranbridge21\/status\/1203282269764493312?s=20<\/p>\n<p>Words: Zaina Emad | Photo credit: Gatwick Airport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passengers have witnessed police officers board their EasyJet plane on the runway due to what was being referred to a \u201csafety-related\u201d problem The security threat, which seems to be concerned with the plane\u2019s aviation, has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":35672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,130,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-travel","category-uknews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}