United passenger is arrested for mid-air bomb threat as flight makes emergency landing in St Louis
A passenger has been arrested after a United Airlines flight from Dallas to Chicago was forced to make an emergency landing over an alleged bomb threat.
The plane was diverted to Lambert St. Louis International Airport, Missouri, at around 8.40am Sunday.
The man who was arrested reportedly ‘said there was a bomb in his wife’s luggage,’ sources told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Bomb and arson teams were dispatched to the aircraft after it landed, and were still searching the plane more than two hours later, an official told the newspaper.
Passengers were evacuated and waited on the concourse, the airport’s director Rhonda Hamm-Niebruegge reportedly said.
A spokesperson from United Airlines told the Daily Mail that ‘flight 380 from Dallas to Chicago landed safely in St. Louis to address a potential security concern.’
The airline noted that law enforcement searched and cleared the Boeing 737-700, which included 119 passengers and five crew members.
At this time, the flight has left St. Louis earlier and has since landed in Chicago.
The plane was diverted to Lambert St. Louis International Airport, Missouri , at around 8.40am Sunday morning
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