US passenger arrested after allegedly threatening to bomb, hijack flight

A United Airlines rider has been arrested aft allegedly threatening to detonate a weaponry and attempting to unit his mode into the cockpit of a formation travelling from Newark, New Jersey, to New Orleans, Louisiana.

The suspect, identified arsenic 34-year-old Rony Gomez Alberto, was taken into custody aft the craft landed safely astatine Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport connected Monday night.

According to the New York Post connected Tuesday, the incidental occurred aboard United Airlines Flight 2174, which took disconnected from Newark International Airport astatine astir 9:30 p.m. with 46 passengers and six unit members connected board.

The pilots reportedly alerted aerial postulation controllers aft Alberto allegedly began behaving erratically, claimed helium was carrying a weaponry and attempted to summation entree to the cockpit.

Audio recordings of communications with aerial postulation power reportedly indicated that the passenger, who authorities said had constricted proficiency successful English, was restrained astatine the rear of the craft portion the unit dealt with the situation.

The level yet arrived safely successful New Orleans astatine astir 11:15 p.m., wherever officers of the Jefferson Parish Sher...