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All flights into and retired of Ronald Reagan National Airport, 1 of the nation's busiest airports, were halted for a clip connected Tuesday (November 4, 2025) owed to a reported weaponry threat, national authorities announced.
The menace was directed towards a United Airlines formation traveling from Houston, Texas to the Washington, D.C. country airport, U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said connected X.
All different flights were enactment connected clasp portion the craft was moved to an isolated country of the airport. The 89 passengers and six unit members disembarked from the Boeing 737 level and were bussed to the terminal, United Airlines and the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority said.
The FBI Washington Field Office’s National Capital Response Squad responded to the reported menace and said nary hazardous materials were found. Law enforcement is present investigating the menace itself, authorities said.
All airdrome operations resumed astatine astir 1:30 p.m. ET, according to Duffy, who thanked instrumentality enforcement for responding swiftly.
Before flights resumed, the mean hold clip for departing flights extracurricular of the airdrome was 51 minutes connected Tuesday afternoon, according to the the Federal Aviation Administration. The maximum hold clip was implicit 2 hours.
Flight delays crossed the state person been connected the emergence arsenic the national authorities enters the 2nd period of a shutdown, leaving aerial postulation controllers to enactment without pay.
