Alarm causes flights headed to Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport to be diverted

An alarm at a control tower at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport caused an evacuation that led to more than 40 inbound flights being diverted to other airports on Sunday.

Twitter users reported that their flights heading into Phoenix were diverted to Tucson, Albuquerque and El Paso.

The airport said that the issue had been resolved.

Flights arriving again @phxskyharbor 40+ inbound diversions this morning after @FAANews Tower evacuated due to alarm. Now resolved.

— PHX Sky Harbor (@PHXSkyHarbor) September 24, 2017

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