United flight forced to make emergency landing in St Louis after passenger made bomb threat, report says
A United Airlines flight from Dallas to Chicago was forced to divert after a passenger made a bomb threat, according to a report.
The plane was diverted to Lambert St. Louis International Airport, Missouri, Sunday morning and a passenger has been arrested, the St Louis Post Dispatchreports.
The man who was arrested “said there was a bomb in his wife’s luggage,” sources told the outlet.
Passengers were evacuated and were waiting on the concourse, the airport’s director Rhonda Hamm-Niebruegge told the newspaper.
No injuries have been reported, she added.
The Independent has contacted United Airlines for further information.
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