A United Airlines flight turned around midair after a 25-year-old man made terroristic threats on his phone, according to authorities.
United Flight 1681 took off Saturday night carrying 150 passengers and six crew members from Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, destined for Newark Liberty International Airport. As the flight was in the air, a flight attendant allegedly saw Dante Milne texting that he was going to hijack the aircraft and reported the incident to the pilots.
The pilots told air traffic control that they handled the situation without saying anything to the passenger suspected of making the threats.
“The passenger does not know anything is going on. The flight attendant saw him texting that he was going to hijack the aircraft. They called me. We went lock down and we returned to Vegas,” one of the pilots said.
“So no restraint, the passenger is compliant because he’s unaware,” the pilot added.
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