{"id":442150,"date":"2026-05-31T06:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T20:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/united-airlines-flight-diverts-passenger-multiple-cockpit-breach-attempts\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T06:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T20:54:11","slug":"united-airlines-flight-diverts-after-passenger-makes-multiple-cockpit-breach-attempts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=442150","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines Flight Diverts After Passenger Makes \u201cMultiple\u201d Cockpit Breach Attempts"},"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> flight between Chicago and Minneapolis was forced to divert to the state of Wisconsin on Friday, 29 May, after what has been described as an &#8216;unruly passenger&#8217; attempted to breach the cockpit. The flight, operating at <strong>UA2005<\/strong>, had been flying 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=\"256586\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/minneapolis-st-paul-international-airport\/\"  >Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport<\/a><\/span> (MSP) when the passenger was behaving badly and caused a security concern on board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the Russian speaking passenger made a commotion onboard, the Minneapolis bound flight was forced to divert to Madison.<\/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":[396,476,1158,13357,3333,536,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-cockpit","category-flight-diverted","category-security","category-united-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442150","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=442150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442153,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442150\/revisions\/442153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=442150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=442150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=442150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}