{"id":3902,"date":"2019-08-15T09:47:54","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T09:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=3902"},"modified":"2019-08-15T09:47:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T09:47:55","slug":"fire-on-us-military-plane-in-shannon-airport-reveals-risk-to-passengers-crowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/fire-on-us-military-plane-in-shannon-airport-reveals-risk-to-passengers-crowe\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire on US military plane in Shannon Airport reveals risk to passengers &#8211; Crowe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs and Defence, Se\u00e1n\nCrowe TD, has expressed his concern for the safety of passengers in Shannon\nAirport after a fire broke out on a plane carrying US soldiers this morning. Flight\noperations at Shannon Airport are temporarily suspended as a result, causing\nsignificant delays during one of its busiest months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe TD:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cAir traffic controllers noticed a fire and smoke coming from a plane transporting US soldiers as it was taxing along the runway in Shannon Airport this morning.<\/p><p>\u201cThe plane was evacuated, and airport fire crews responded to the incident and extinguished the fire. Thankfully nobody was hurt or injured in this serious incident.<\/p><p>\u201cAccording to reports the fire happened on a passenger plane but the Irish government also allows US military planes stocked with armaments to use Shannon Airport. If such a fire broke out on one of these planes it could have serious and fatal consequences.<\/p><p>\u201cShannon Airport is a civilian airport but the Irish government have effectively turned it into a forward base of the US military. This is a complete violation of Irish neutrality, but it also poses a severe risk to the health and safety hundreds of thousands of Irish and foreign passengers that use the airport.<\/p><p>\u201cWe must end this violation of Irish neutrality and restore Shannon Airport as a civilian airport.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs and Defence, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, has expressed his concern for the safety of passengers in Shannon Airport after a fire broke out on a plane carrying US soldiers this morning. Flight operations at Shannon Airport are temporarily suspended as a result, causing significant delays during one of its busiest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neutrality","category-shannon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3903,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902\/revisions\/3903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}