{"id":141852,"date":"2026-01-20T18:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T18:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/141852\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T18:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T18:21:09","slug":"united-airlines-flight-from-d-c-to-san-francisco-diverted-to-chicago-due-to-unruly-passenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/141852\/","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines flight from D.C. to San Francisco diverted to Chicago due to unruly passenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A United Airlines flight from Washington D.C. to San Francisco was diverted to O&#8217;Hare International Airport in Chicago on Monday night, due to an unruly passenger.<\/p>\n<p>United confirmed flight 1129 was headed from Dulles International Airport to San Francisco when &#8220;a customer became disruptive,&#8221; prompting the plane to land at O&#8217;Hare.<\/p>\n<p>According to flight tracker FlightAware, the plane landed at O&#8217;Hare around 9:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The airline said law enforcement removed the unruly passenger from the plane after it landed. A Chicago Police Department spokesperson said the FBI responded to the scene, but could provide no further information.<\/p>\n<p>The other passengers were booked on another flight that landed in San Francisco, according to United. That plane landed in San Francisco around 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday, according to FlightAware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A United Airlines flight from Washington D.C. to San Francisco was diverted to O&#8217;Hare International Airport in Chicago&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[4419,56524,101,103,102,104,106,105,13026,514],"class_list":{"0":"post-141852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-o039hare-international-airport","10":"tag-san-francisco","11":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","12":"tag-san-francisco-news","13":"tag-sf","14":"tag-sf-headlines","15":"tag-sf-news","16":"tag-united-airlines","17":"tag-washington-d-c"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}