It’s Weird Day at the airports

Take your pick on the weirder story today.

1. Dallas Love Field flights are disrupted after a carjacking suspect drove through an airport fence and went speeding down an active runway and around the airport.

2. An American Airlines flight is stopped as it's in line to take off after San Francisco police receive a hijacking warning.

In the Love Field story, the suspect allegedly hijacked a vehicle in North Dallas, then led police on a low-speed chase through Dallas before smashing through a gate and onto active runways and taxiways.

Here's WFAA's story:

The Dallas Morning News story says Dallas police surrounded the stolen pickup and rammed it to stop the vehicle, then arrested the driver.

The incident forced officials to delay flights that were arriving, but FlightStats.com showed little disruption at the Dallas airport.

In the San Francisco case, police eventually arrested two people on the airplane, the Associated Press reported. UPDATE: But police denied anyone was taken into custody, and the threat was no credible.

Here's the sequence of events from American's Tim Smith:

"Basically, we got a phoned-in security threat that came into local police in San Francisco. The airplane had left the gate but had not taken off. It had stopped in line and getting ready to do its takeoff.

"They [Transportation Security Administration officials] directed it to a remote area of the tarmac. The passengers were deplaned and put on buses, back to the terminal area. Both passengers and the aircraft will be rescreened, and the passenger ultimately will be re-accommodated on other flights."

Flight 24 had been scheduled to depart San Francisco for New York at 7:30 a.m. PDT It had already been delayed by an ill crew member before the TSA learned of the threat and took over.

The Boeing 767-300ER carried 163 passengers and 11 crew members, Smith said.

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