The Jackson Municipal Airport Authority issued the following statement.
Breaking: Jackson Int’l Airport evacuated. No inbound or outbound flights rn. Verbal security threat.
The Jackson Municipal Airport Authority (JMAA) reports receiving a verbal security threat today at its primary airport, Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International (JAN).
As is customary, this incident was reported immediately to the United States Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which took the step of evacuating passengers and employees at JAN out of an abundance of caution.
Further information may be available later from the TSA and other relevant agencies as this incident unfolds.
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I flew into and out of JAN this past week. It's been about 2 years since. That place is sad. Civil Rights thrown in everyone's face. Lots of people were flying through who were disrupted due to weather and they were all commenting on how awkward the "decor" was. Many were saying "no wonder Mississippi can't get out of its own way, they constantly want to live in the past".
Disgruntled Paris Air Show vendor?
Did the Airport Commissioners evacuate to Paris?
My son, his wife and young child were about to board when they were told to evacuate the building. They were left standing out in the cold for hours in limbo.
What are the chances the cops will identify and prosecute the POS that pulled this stunt??
3:27 said no one ever. i really doubt anyone was “passing through” Jackson and would leave the concourses to see the decor
and civil rights displays.
3:27, That's the City of Jackson leadership: basking in the accomplishments of their ancestors, while accomplishing nothing themselves.
Flew through DFW, Cincinnati, and Atlanta last weekend on the way to and from the natty in Indy. I don’t fly a lot, but I’ve been in third world countries that have nicer airports.
It was The State Legislature who called and said The State of Mississippi were taking the Airport away from Jackson.
3:27…..noticed I see. Sadly the general population just want to be left to themselves.
@3:27 - no one actually said that.
Airport needs a makeover! Sad place!
Airport Security & the TSA FAILERD totally in stopping this dumb assed couple leaving the Airport. That's why the Airport should be turned over to Rankin County! Just like the capital police Failedto stop the attack on the Capital.
Bennie Thompson is head of Homeland Security. He must be real proud of his TSA employees in Jackson letting the perps walk out the doors of The Jackson/Megar Evers International Airport! Than they let the passingers freeze their Butts off outside.
How crazy is that.
“I flew into and out of JAN this past week. It's been about 2 years since. That place is sad. Civil Rights thrown in everyone's face. Lots of people were flying through who were disrupted due to weather and they were all commenting on how awkward the "decor" was. Many were saying "no wonder Mississippi can't get out of its own way, they constantly want to live in the past".
Got it. “Many” said that. There’s one area regarding Medgar Evers, it’s by the security checkpoint entrance. It’s not like it’s a shrine that someone would see in a terminal while they wait for a flight.
I fly 2-3 times a week out of the airport. In 15 years I’ve never heard a single person utter a word about the decor, much less talk about “living in the past” in the state that was the heart of Jim Crow. I can’t believe that we erected a statue for James Meredith- we must be caught in the past.
I simply don’t believe you.
according to WLBT it was an African-American male and female who entered the airport and repeated the bomb threat thrice.
Couple was having a fight when the boyfriend said I'll just blow this place up. TSA hear the threats and arrested the guy.
@3:27 - I'll take things that didn't happen for $500
Flights fromMemphis and New Orleans are usually a lot less expensive. Gulfport is about the same price as Jackson but a lot cleaner and better run.
According to the news reports the TSA agents tasked with airport security shut down the airport on the word of a man and a woman who made verbal bomb reports AT the airport. These people were allowed to leave the airport and go about their business and the bomb reports proved to be bogus. It's disappointing but also scary to think that anyone without consequence can walk up to a supposedly trained security agent and shut down an American "international" airport on a bogus claim and walk away to laugh about it. At the very least the agents should have those people's names, addresses, ID's, pictures, and arrests are imminent. If not, airport security is a joke.
There were people there?
Me thinks comments aren't exactly what the KF was expecting so he's ummmmm ghosting them.
My question is where was airport security. I can't park long enough to unload before they ask me to move along.----This couple parked, came in, found TSA, made threats, left the airport, got back in car and left without anyone confronting them. The airport is small enough that you can be anywhere within a minute. Were the Flowood or Pearl police alerted to be on the lookout? Seems crazy this couple could be so out in the open with this and just disappear.
State of MS please take airport management from City.
Civil Rights history everywhere in the airport is juxtaposed with the surly laziness and incompetence you experience with every encounter of a JMAA employee. Priceless.
Me thinks comments aren't exactly what the KF was expecting so he's ummmmm ghosting them.
No surprise that you're wrong again.
@9:10 am, Airport security in JAN is the worst. We have a similar sized airport, and they rarely, if ever, ask you to move while you are waiting to pick up or taking the time to get in some hugs as you leave. I haven't seen the vitriol from security like you see it at JAN.
6:14 . The fact that you didn't hear the comments doesn't mean they weren't made.
Maybe it had something to do with the North Korea missile launch? Just saying!
10:13 : I was just trolling. Roasting KF is kinda of a thing early in the morning when comments are 16 hours behind. Lol.
Kingfish sucks up to Thompson every day of the life of either or both.
Any attorneys out there know when the ruling from the 5th circuit will come out? Personally over here counting down the days…
this airport has its own exclusive on-site police force
My wife and I flew out of the Jackson Medgar Evers Airport going to a convention in December 2021. We got to the airport as instructed about 2 hours before our flight. My husband let me off in the lower area of the airport and he went and parked the car. When he came back to meet me to help me with the luggage the escalator was not working in the up position. There was a yellow baracade around the escalator stating it was out of order. My husband carried all the luggage one at a time up the stairs to the Delta counter. We checked in and proceeded to go to the Security gate. This Airport looks worse than a third world airport and I have been in several smaller airports that are extremely clean and well taken care of. There were coke cans sitting on the floor and the general cleanliness was less than it should be. My husband and I live in the Mississippi Delta and to have an airport that travelers first see when they come into the State of Mississippi is nothing short of a total embarrassment. We fly in and out of Jackson on a regular basis and something must be done to get this NASTY EMBARRASSMENT OF AN AIRPORT CLEANED UP. THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI SHOULD BE ASHAMED TO LET THIS AIRPORT CONTINUE TO OPERATE AT THIS LEVEL.
Kang! It's OK if you decide to not post the thread on the elaborate memorial to Evers...in rebuttal to the poster that said there IS none. Really. It's OK.
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