Update: <\/p>\n
9:50 p.m., July 4, 2025: This story updated with new information from the Dallas Department of Aviation<\/p>\n
A vehicle that drove into Dallas Love Field\u2019s<\/a> air operations area caused a runway to close early Fourth of July morning, officials said.<\/p>\n The unauthorized vehicle accessed the air operations area of the airport where planes land and take off around 6:10 a.m., according to Lauren Rounds, a spokesperson for the Dallas Department of Aviation.<\/p>\n Dallas police immediately responded to the airport, Rounds said.<\/p>\n Out of caution, Runway 13R-31L was closed by the Federal Aviation Administration, she said.<\/p>\n Crime in The News<\/p>\n The runway was closed for a little over two hours but has reopened, she said. The scene has been contained by police to the east side of the airfield near Business Jet Center, according to Rounds.<\/p>\n Love Field is the base for Southwest Airlines<\/a>, which uses 18 of the airport\u2019s 20 gates<\/a>, with the last two operated by Atlanta-based airline, Delta.<\/p>\n The Dallas Morning News has reached out to Dallas police for more information about the vehicle and driver who entered the airport\u2019s air traffic area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Update: 9:50 p.m., July 4, 2025: This story updated with new information from the Dallas Department of Aviation…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":38562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[10314,5229,4219,1596,7290,14842,18466,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-38561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-airlines","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-dallas","12":"tag-dallas-county","13":"tag-dallas-police","14":"tag-love-field","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114796057310235459","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}