The halls of Miami International Airport weren’t filled with red, white and blue on the Fourth of July — but rather bright lime green.
A pipe leak in the airport’s Concourse G caused fluorescent fluid to flow from the ceiling at 9 a.m. ET Thursday morning, the airport said. Crews immediately responded to the scene and determined the liquid was not dangerous.
We would like to thank our passengers in Concourse G for their patience and understanding this morning. At approximately 9:00 am, we received reports of a broken pipe in Concourse G. Crews were immediately dispatched to investigate and it was determined that the leaking liquid… pic.twitter.com/kN7TE9DJ0Z
– Miami International Airport (@iflymia) July 4, 2024
The spill was cleaned up within an hour and a half, the airport said in an X post.
“We would like to thank our passengers in Concourse G for their patience and understanding this morning,” the post read.
Greg Chin, director of communications for the Miami-Dade Department of Aviation, said in a subsequent statement that the mysterious solution was, in fact, just water.
“The liquid was water from the air conditioning system with a green dye, so if there is a leak, it can be traced back to its source,” Chin said.
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