{"id":5504,"date":"2022-11-29T00:45:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T00:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enews.sotout.com\/flights-into-dallas-fort-worth-international-airport-disrupted-by-fuel-pump-fire\/"},"modified":"2022-11-29T00:45:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T00:45:13","slug":"flights-into-dallas-fort-worth-international-airport-disrupted-by-fuel-pump-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/flights-into-dallas-fort-worth-international-airport-disrupted-by-fuel-pump-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Flights into Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport disrupted by fuel pump fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/rockcms\/2022-11\/221111-dallas-fortworth-international-airport-mjf-1141-261038.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/news\/local\/ground-stop-at-dfw-airport-due-to-fire-at-fuel-pump\/3122938\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fuel pump caught fire <\/a>at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport on Friday, forcing a ground stop<strong> <\/strong>and hundreds of flight delays<strong> <\/strong>at one of the nation&#8217;s busiest hubs, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">By 4 p.m. CST, there had been at least 755 delays of flights into or out of DFW, which accounted for a disproportionate 19.2% of the 3,916 tardy air journeys across the United States on Friday, according to data from Houston-based tracking company FlightAware.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DFWAirport\/status\/1591112332075479040\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DFW first tweeted<\/a> about the fire at 10:55 a.m., saying that first responders immediately \u201cwere able to put the fire out and shut off the affected pump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;A fire occurred this morning at the DFW Airport fuel farm located on the west side of the airport,&#8221; according to an FAA statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;The fire is out.\u00a0But the fuel lines are now shut down as the airport conducts a safety inspection.\u00a0All inbound flights are being held at their departure airport due to lack of available fuel.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DFWAirport\/status\/1591139318873350145\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">By 12:42 p.m., DFW<\/a> said the fuel pump was working again \u2014\u00a0but that overall operations would still be behind schedule for much of the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;The airlines\u2019 fuel contractor has restored operations at their facility, and they are in the process of sending fuel to aircraft,&#8221; the airport statement said. &#8220;It will take some time to get fueling operations back to normal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">DFW traveler Frank Plunkett was jarred by the wail of sirens  racing by his hotel on Friday morning, not knowing that would lead to an hours-long delay to get home to Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;I saw all kinds of firetrucks headed down toward the airport and I didn&#8217;t know where they were going from where I was at in downtown Dallas,&#8221; said Plunkett, who teaches legal studies at Peirce College in Philadelphia. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;But I was like, &#8216;That&#8217;s a lot of firetrucks going somewhere.&#8217; I had no idea how that was going to affect my day.&#8221;<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"endmark\">DFW served <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/ohare-ranks-as-worlds-fourth-busiest-airport-according-to-new-report\/2804457\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">62.6 million passengers last year<\/a>, making it the second-busiest airport with only Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport handling more traffic, according to Airports Council International.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"expanded-byline article-expanded-byline\">\n<p class=\"byline-bio expanded-byline__bio mt3 mt0-m ml9-m\">David K. Li is a breaking news reporter for NBC News.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Maya Brown<!-- --> and <!-- -->Jay Blackman<!-- --> <!-- -->contributed<!-- -->.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] A fuel pump caught fire at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport on Friday, forcing a ground stop and hundreds of flight delays at one of the nation&#8217;s busiest hubs, officials said. By 4 p.m. CST, there had been at least 755 delays of flights into or out of DFW, which accounted for a disproportionate 19.2% &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}