{"id":187,"date":"2016-01-18T07:03:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T13:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=187"},"modified":"2016-02-15T18:57:52","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T00:57:52","slug":"durango-colorado-airport-deals-with-flat-tire-and-new-terminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=187","title":{"rendered":"Durango, Colorado Airport deals with flat tire and new terminal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A flight operated by United Airlines partner\u00a0SkyWest airlines\u00a0landed safely Wednesday at the Durango La Plata County Airport in Colorado\u00a0with a flat\u00a0tire. The plane,\u00a0with\u00a066 passengers and 4\u00a0crew members aboard, informed\u00a0the airport tower that it had possibly blown a tire on\u00a0take off from\u00a0Denver International Airport. The plane circled the Durango airport prior to\u00a0landed safely. No one was injured, and emergency crews temporarily\u00a0closed the runway to inspect it\u00a0for any tire debris.<\/p>\n<p>In other\u00a0Durango La Plata County Airport news, the city council and\u00a0county commission are\u00a0discussing the possibility of using grants, or raising taxes, to help fund a new terminal on the east side of the field.\u00a0A\u00a0Federal Aviation Administration grant could provide between $35 and\u00a0$45 million dollars, and\u00a0would requiring\u00a0matching local funds.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-189\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DRO-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"DRO\" width=\"644\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DRO-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DRO.jpg 625w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A flight operated by United Airlines partner\u00a0SkyWest airlines\u00a0landed safely Wednesday at the Durango La Plata County Airport in Colorado\u00a0with a flat\u00a0tire. The plane,\u00a0with\u00a066 passengers and 4\u00a0crew members aboard, informed\u00a0the airport tower that it had possibly blown a tire on\u00a0take off from\u00a0Denver International Airport. The plane circled the Durango airport prior to\u00a0landed safely. No one was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}