Overview
- Parts of Kansas City International Airport were cleared late Sunday morning, with roughly 2,000 people moved onto the tarmac and a ground stop holding arriving aircraft on taxiways.
- Operations resumed early afternoon after Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced the all-clear and the FBI said the report was not credible.
- FBI Director Kash Patel said the terminal was swept and cleared, warning that such threats are federal crimes subject to investigation.
- Searches by airport police, K-9 teams and bomb technicians included the parking garage, where a flagged vehicle was examined and later cleared.
- The disruption delayed flights, diverted several inbound aircraft—Southwest confirmed four—and temporarily closed road access ramps to the airport, according to Missouri transportation officials.