Keep'em scared: Citizen app mistakenly turns a training tweet into an airplane disaster

Nearly 60,000 Angeleños were informed by Citizen that an airplane had crashed at LAX. Happily for folks worried about an airplane smashing into a terminal, Citizen had disregarded the 'Only a drill' portion of LAX's warning.

ABC7:

A false alarm created a major scare for more than 60,000 users of the Citizen app on Saturday when an alert was sent warning of a plane crash at Los Angeles International Airport.

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