Kansas City airport in U.S. reopens hours after evacuation as potential threat was investigated

The Kansas City International Airport terminal reopened connected Sunday (March 8, 2026) afternoon, hours aft it was evacuated portion authorities looked into a imaginable threat, the Kansas City Aviation Department said.

Airport spokesperson Jackson Overstreet said successful an email soon aft 2 p.m. that the terminal was reopened. The evacuation began aft a menace that surfaced astir 11.15 a.m. Flights that landed aft the evacuation were held connected the taxiway during the shutdown, which Overstreet said lasted astir 2 hours.

In a societal media station connected Sunday (March 8, 2026) afternoon, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the incidental was wide and "normal operations are resuming".

FBI Director Kash Patel said connected societal media connected Sunday (March 8, 2026) day that the FBI reviewed the menace and determined it "not to beryllium credible".

Logan Hawley, 29, said helium was waiting to committee a formation to Texas erstwhile helium noticed a swarm of constabulary and K9 units wrong the terminal. "Suddenly determination was an airdrome idiosyncratic saying, 'Immediately evacuate'. People got up accelerated and rushed retired of there.”

He said the radical of astir 2,000 radical were ushered onto the tarmac.