{"id":202119,"date":"2026-04-18T22:59:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202119\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:59:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:59:20","slug":"united-flight-from-chicagos-ohare-airport-bound-for-new-york-laguardia-diverted-to-pittsburgh-for-potential-security-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202119\/","title":{"rendered":"United flight from Chicago’s O’Hare airport bound for New York LaGuardia diverted to Pittsburgh for ‘potential security concern’"},"content":{"rendered":"

ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team \"WLS<\/p>\n

Saturday, April 18, 2026 8:32PM<\/p>\n

\"ABC7<\/p>\n

CHICAGO (WLS) — United Airlines said a flight that took off from Chicago O’Hare International Airport was forced to land in Pittsburgh on Saturday due to a “potential security concern.”<\/p>\n

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United flight 2092 departed from O’Hare airport and was headed to New York LaGuardia airport Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

The flight was diverted to Pittsburgh “to address a potential security concern,” United said. Passengers evacuated the plane on slides.<\/p>\n

No injuries were reported. There were six crew members and 159 passengers on board.<\/p>\n

No further information about the exact nature of the security concern was immediately available.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2026 WLS-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team Saturday, April 18, 2026 8:32PM CHICAGO (WLS) — United Airlines said a flight that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[80121,9,11,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-202119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-80121","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202119","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=202119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}