A ground stop was called for the airport for all departing flights, per the Federal Aviation Administration, but was soon lifted.
Zeidler and others took shelter in a TGI Fridays restaurant, she said. Photos she shared on Twitter showed a crowd of people standing on the tarmac beneath a jetway as the incident unfolded. Dianne Callahan was traveling with her son and had just boarded her flight to New York when the crew closed the door to the plane. That's when she said she heard screams outside the plane. She also heard sirens, Callahan said, but didn't know what was going on.
Last month, the agency reported catching 4,650 firearms — a majority of them loaded — at security checkpoints in the first 10 months of 2021. That number surpassed the full-year record of 4,432, set in 2019.