{"id":361280,"date":"2011-04-02T16:39:27","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T16:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/02\/taylor-hicks-i-banged-my-way-onto-an-airplane\/"},"modified":"2011-04-02T16:39:27","modified_gmt":"2011-04-02T16:39:27","slug":"taylor-hicks-i-banged-my-way-onto-an-airplane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/02\/taylor-hicks-i-banged-my-way-onto-an-airplane\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Hicks &#8212; I &#8216;Banged&#8217; My Way Onto an Airplane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div><span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2011\/04\/02\/taylor-hicks-video-airplane-bang-on-door-american-idol-winner-contestant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span><br \/>\nTmz<br \/>\n<\/span><\/a> : \u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n Former &#8216;American Idol&#8217; champ Taylor Hicks pulled a full-on rock star move to force his way onto an airplane in Atlanta after nearly missing his flight.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor gave us the blow-by-blow when he got off his Delta flight from Atlanta to NYC on Friday &#8212; telling us, &#8220;They wouldn&#8217;t let me in so I had to call the higher-ups. We banged on the door to the plane as it was leaving.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hicks &#8212; the oldest &#8216;Idol&#8217; winner ever &#8212; might be exaggerating his pull with the airline just a bit. Officials at Hartsfield Airport in Atlanta tell us they have no record of Hicks&#8217; flight being held up &#8230; and they suspect he merely knocked on the jetway door shortly after it closed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/201ed65bget.media_50-150x90.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/foreign.peacefmonline.com\/entertainment\/201104\/149994.php\" title=\"Taylor Hicks -- I 'Banged' My Way Onto an Airplane\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Taylor Hicks &#8212; I &#8216;Banged&#8217; My Way Onto an Airplane<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Tmz : \u00a0\u00a0 Former &#8216;American Idol&#8217; champ Taylor Hicks pulled a full-on rock star move to force his way onto an airplane in Atlanta after nearly missing his flight. Taylor gave us the blow-by-blow when he got off his Delta flight from Atlanta to NYC on Friday &#8212; telling us, &#8220;They wouldn&#8217;t let me in so I had to call the higher-ups. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-361280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Taylor Hicks - I &#039;Banged&#039; My Way Onto an Airplane - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/02\/taylor-hicks-i-banged-my-way-onto-an-airplane\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Taylor Hicks - I &#039;Banged&#039; My Way Onto an Airplane - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Tmz : \u00a0\u00a0 Former &#039;American Idol&#039; champ Taylor Hicks pulled a full-on rock star move to force his way onto an airplane in Atlanta after nearly missing his flight. 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