A United Airlines flight on its way to Chicago was forced to make an emergency landing in Missouri Sunday after a passenger said there was a bomb in his wife’s luggage, according to reports and authorities.
United Flight 380 from Dallas to Chicago landed in St. Louis on Sunday morning due to a potential security concern, a United Airlines spokesperson said in a statement to The Post.
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The plane was diverted to St. Louis Lambert International Airport around 8:40 a.m. after a man said there was a bomb in a piece of his wife’s luggage, sources told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The allegedly unwieldy man was arrested, the outlet said.
His identity or whether he has been charged is not immediately clear.
All 119 passengers were promptly evacuated and waited on the concourse upon landing, the airport’s director, Rhonda Hamm-Niebruegge, told the outlet.
Bomb and arson teams were dispatched to the Boeing 737-700 and were still searching it more than two hours after it landed, the outlet reported.
Law enforcement successfully searched and cleared the aircraft, according to United Airlines.
The flight took off from St. Louis in the afternoon and landed safely in Chicago, the airline said.
The incident comes after multiple bomb threats have sparked chaos aboard flights in recent weeks.