‘I have a bomb’: Pennsylvania high schooler who sent bomb threat to fellow passengers on American Airlines flight arrested

EL PASO, TEXAS: A secondary school understudy from Pennsylvania is in guardianship in El Paso, Texas, for airdropping a bogus bomb danger to individual travelers in a plane. The episode happened when a gathering of understudies and chaperones from a Pittsburgh catholic secondary school were going home from a helpful outing to the line to find out about the migration emergency.

The American Carriers Flight 2051 to Chicago was navigating at El Paso Worldwide Air terminal on Friday, February 17. It is when travelers got an AirDrop demand from a source named “I have a bomb. Might want to share a photograph,” the Texas Division of Public Wellbeing said in a proclamation.

The plane got back to the door after scam bomb danger Not long after the bomb danger, the plane got back to the door where a bomb crew examination recognized the anonymous high schooler as the shipper of the “non-trustworthy” danger.

Purportedly, the Texas Branch of Public Wellbeing said that the adolescent had supposedly confessed to sending the message. At the point when authorities looked through the youngster’s telephone, they said they found proof affirming that he was dependable.

The understudy faces one count of making a misleading report or caution The El Paso Province Lawyer’s Office, which handles the arraignment of adolescent wrongdoing, consented to indict the case. The name, age, and orientation of the adolescent were not revealed.

It is said that the understudy is in care at El Paso Adolescent Probation Division. The understudy faces one count of making a misleading report or caution which is a crime under the Texas Punitive Code. The remainder of the gathering got back on Monday.

NEW: Juvenile detained in El PasoTX will be prosecuted. Pittsburgh Central Catholic confirmed students were on board this flight & detained. Sources tell me the student who airdropped this message was a Central Catholic student. Awaiting more info from the Diocese of Pgh #WTAE pic.twitter.com/06DO836YtU

— Marcie Cipriani (@MCipriani_WTAE) February 20, 2023

Despite the fact that it is indistinct the number of travelers that got the fabrication danger, the plane conveyed 125 travelers. Focal Catholic’s proclamation kept up with that the understudy sent the unwise danger “jokingly.”

The flight was deferred by 5 hours The American Carriers flight was seriously deferred because of a false bomb, New York Post revealed. After the bomb crew cleared the airplane, FlightAware records coted by the post-show the plane arrived at Chicago O’Hare Worldwide Air terminal not long before 9 pm — north of five hours after the fact than anticipated.

“As a suggestion to the general population, kindly know about the neighborhood, state, and government regulations while voyaging. The regulations are set up for the security of our networks and general society. Notwithstanding your age, position, or situation, all organizations will uphold the law,” The Texas Branch of Public Wellbeing said.