United Airlines Flight Issues Hijacking Alert After Passenger Claims to Have Bomb and Attempts to Enter Cockpit
- On Monday, a United Airlines flight from Newark, New Jersey, landed safely at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport after a passenger allegedly claimed to have a bomb onboard.
- Sheriff Joseph Lopinto said the 34-year-old man began acting irrationally around 11:20 p.m. and reportedly told crew members he possessed a bomb during the flight.
- Carrying 46 passengers and six crew members, the Boeing 737 Max 9 arrived just before midnight, where all passengers were safely deplaned and transported to the terminal.
- After being arrested without incident, the man was booked into Jefferson Parish Correctional Center on charges of communicating false information of planned arson and terrorizing.
- The Federal Aviation Administration plans to investigate the incident, while Associated Press writer Josh Funk in Omaha, Nebraska, contributed to this report.
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Rony Alexander Gómez-Alberto crossed the border three times and convinced a migration judge that his identity endangered him in his home country; the incident occurred on November 9 on the Newark-Louis Armstrong route.
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