{"id":24431,"date":"2024-01-10T01:21:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T06:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.businessupturn.com\/?p=24431"},"modified":"2024-01-10T01:26:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T06:26:56","slug":"air-force-two-carrying-vp-harris-diverted-to-dc-area-airport-after-encountering-wind-shear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/air-force-two-carrying-vp-harris-diverted-to-dc-area-airport-after-encountering-wind-shear\/24431\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Two carrying VP Harris diverted to DC-area airport after encountering \u2018wind shear\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 aircraft was forced to divert to a Washington-area airport after encountering stormy weather Tuesday night as she returned from a trip to Georgia. Press secretary Kirsten Allen said in a statement, \u201cTonight, en route from Atlanta, GA, Air Force 2 was diverted from Joint Base Andrews to Dulles International Airport due to inclement weather.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A person familiar with the matter, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss it, said the aircraft encountered wind shear as a powerful storm brought high winds and rain to the nation\u2019s capital. The same person said no one was injured. Wind shear is a sudden shift in wind direction or speed that can be hazardous during takeoff and landing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 aircraft was forced to divert to a Washington-area airport after encountering stormy weather Tuesday night as\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":24433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7784,7785,7788,511,7789,7787,7790,7783,7786],"class_list":["post-24431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-air-force-two","tag-diverted","tag-dulles-international-airport","tag-extreme-weather","tag-hazardous-during-takeoff-and-landing","tag-joint-base-andrews","tag-sudden-shift-in-wind-direction-or-speed","tag-vice-president-kamala-harris","tag-wind-shear"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}