{"id":3692,"date":"2026-11-11T09:58:58","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T09:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/?p=3692"},"modified":"2026-11-11T09:58:58","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T09:58:58","slug":"man-arrested-after-allegedly-saying-he-had-a-bomb-on-a-flight-bound-for-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/?p=3692","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after allegedly saying he had a bomb on a flight bound for New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">A man who said he had <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/flight-diverted-france-bomb-threat-dublin-rome-6585ff565ee1ccb9f19b73074aa2fec4\">a bomb<\/a> while aboard a flight bound for New Orleans has been arrested, authorities say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The 34-year-old man started acting irrationally late in the evening during the flight and reportedly told crew members that he had a bomb, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff\u2019s Office said Tuesday. The man was not identified. The airplane, which departed from Newark, New Jersey, landed safely at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, and the man was arrested without incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">He was transported to the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center and was booked with communicating false information of planned arson and terrorizing, the office said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Federal Aviation Administration said it plans to investigate the incident, which occurred aboard a United Airlines flight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">United Airlines said in a statement that the airplane landed safely \u201cfollowing a disruptive incident involving a passenger onboard\u201d and that law enforcement \u201cmet the aircraft upon arrival.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The airplane was a Boeing 737 Max 9 carrying 46 passengers and six crewmembers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Jefferson Parish Sheriff\u2019s Office did not provide any additional information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">__<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Kelety reported from Phoenix. Associated Press writer Josh Funk in Omaha, Nebraska, contributed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/wireStory\/man-arrested-after-allegedly-bomb-aboard-flight-bound-138029559\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man who said he had a bomb while aboard a flight bound for New Orleans has been arrested, authorities say. The 34-year-old man started acting irrationally late in the evening during the flight and reportedly told crew members that he had a bomb, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff\u2019s Office said Tuesday. The man was not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}