Reports say passengers have a Wi-Fi hotspot entitled “There's a Bomb,” which evacuated American Airlines flights and then delayed for nearly five hours.
American Airlines Flight 286 to Charlotte, North Carolina was returned to the gates of Austin Bergstrom International Airport on Friday after passengers involved showed flight attendants a surprising name. Reported by ABC News.
The pilot initially condemned delays in “administrative matters,” but then came out and said he said he had “a bomb on the flight” because “someone modified their hot spots.”
Police then came to the plane and told the perpetrator to come forward, Steen said.
He told passengers:
When no one came forward, all passengers were escorted from the plane and forced to show police the name of their hotspot, the report said.
They were then kept in a vigilant area and rescreened by security. View from the wing It has been reported.
Their bags also had to be offloaded from the aircraft in checks and sniffed by the bomb dog, ABC News said.
Once cleared, the flight finally took off at 6:15pm.
A spokesman for the Transportation Security Administration said in a statement from ABC News that they and their transportation division partners would “take the threat of bombs very seriously.”
“All passengers and their checked baggage have been reopened,” the spokesman said.
According to the outlet, there was no significant impact on the airport or airline operations at Austin Airport other than flight delays.
