An estimated 200 passengers on board a United Airlines flight were forced to evacuate Sunday (April 19) after a bomb threat was made at Denver International Airport, the second security scare for the airline in a two-day span.
Travelers on board the flight set to depart to Washington Dulles evacuated the jet after officials were notified of a “security concern,” a United Airlines spokesperson confirmed to 9News. Footage recorded at the scene showed police vehicles surrounding the plane and emergency crews standing on steps by the plane’s doors.
Passengers were reportedly given food inside the terminal and no explosives were found after the threat was made. The United Airbus A321neo twin jet plane finally departed at 11:30 p.m. local time, more than five and a half hours after its originally scheduled flight, and landed at its destination at 4:28 a.m. Monday (April 20).
The incident took place one day after a United Airlines flight scheduled to arrive at New York’s LaGuardia Airport was instead diverted to Pittsburgh due to fears of a potential bomb being on board.
“We are going to have to start treating this as a potential bomb… we are going to need to go and start a diversion and get things settled. It’s a beeping noise, sequential, one beep per second,” a crew member said in an audio clip shared by liveatc.com.
A total 159 passengers and six crew members safely evacuated the United Boeing 737 and no injuries were repored, the airline confirmed in a statement to the New York Post.
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