{"id":139412,"date":"2026-02-19T23:39:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139412\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T23:39:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:39:20","slug":"bullet-found-in-overhead-compartment-on-flight-bound-from-newark-to-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139412\/","title":{"rendered":"Bullet found in overhead compartment on flight bound from Newark to Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/essex\/\" title=\"Navigate to Essex County\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Essex County<\/a>Published: Feb. 18, 2026, 10:21 p.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Bullet found on plane at N.J. airport\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ACVWYRV7HZGUTBMULWWD4MBSG4.JPG\"  \/>A bullet was discovered in an overhead bin on a plane prior to takeoff at Newark Liberty International Airport, officials said. (Ed Murray| For NJ Advance Media)<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"GYUGTQP3DFAJDPPWXE2SNFG264\">A bullet was found on a flight preparing for departure from Newark Liberty International Airport on Tuesday, according to a United Airlines spokesperson. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"LXOLWWI7BNAPHEKIAUIGO227EI\">The bullet was found in an overhead compartment on United flight 1511 prior to departing for Miami, the spokesperson said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"NESNQLT6ERAO5EOM2LCSTOFXPA\">Security cleared the airplane before it eventually left for Miami, the spokesperson said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"J77UX2KIVVD43DQHNORCMM4BLY\">United directed additional questions to the Transportation Security Administration. Officials from the TSA did not immediately respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n<p>Matt is an award-winning journalist having won over a dozen awards in a variety of categories including coverage of courts and public safety, feature writing, and interpretive writing.  He covers breaking news&#8230; more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Essex CountyPublished: Feb. 18, 2026, 10:21 p.m.A bullet was discovered in an overhead bin on a plane prior&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-139412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}