{"id":408478,"date":"2026-04-19T07:05:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T21:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/bomb-threat-new-york-bound-united-airlines-flight-divert-pittsburgh\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T07:05:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T21:05:55","slug":"bomb-threat-forces-new-york-bound-united-airlines-flight-to-divert-to-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=408478","title":{"rendered":"Bomb Threat Forces New York-Bound United Airlines Flight To Divert To Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"128657\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>United Airlines<\/span><\/span> domestic flight between Chicago and New York was diverted to Pittsburgh on Saturday, following a <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/bomb-threat\/\" >mid-air security concern<\/a>. The service, which was operating as UA 2092, had departed from <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"263837\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/chicago-ohare-international-airport\/\"  >Chicago O&#8217;Hare International Airport<\/a><\/span> (ORD) to <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256663\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/laguardia-airport\/\"  >LaGuardia Airport<\/a><\/span> (LGA) when the diversion was required mid-journey. On arrival at <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"263219\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/pittsburgh-international-airport\/\"  >Pittsburgh International Airport<\/a><\/span>(PIT), all passengers and crew were evacuated safely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A United Airlines flight from Chicago to New York was abruptly diverted to Pittsburgh after a mid-air security concern raised fears of a bomb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,422,2813,537,4331,536,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-boeing-737","category-bomb-threat","category-diversion","category-pittsburgh-international-airport","category-united-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=408478"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408490,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408478\/revisions\/408490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=408478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=408478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=408478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}