{"id":218353,"date":"2026-05-03T17:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T17:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/218353\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T17:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T17:07:10","slug":"united-flight-at-newark-declares-emergency-after-man-attacks-attendant-tries-to-storm-cockpit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/218353\/","title":{"rendered":"United flight at Newark declares emergency after man attacks attendant, tries to storm cockpit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A crazed United Airlines passenger has been arrested after allegedly attacking a flight attendant and trying to storm the cockpit as the plane landed at Newark Liberty International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>United Flight 1837 had just arrived from the Dominican Republic at around 6 p.m. Saturday when the pilot was forced to declare an emergency on board.<\/p>\n<p>Wild audio of the conversation between air traffic control and one of the crew members captures the chaotic scenes on arrival at the New Jersey hub.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re declaring an emergency, seems like someone just attacked one of our flight attendants,\u201d the crew member tells air traffic controllers.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39268814\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/126910650-1.jpg\" alt=\"United Airlines plane at the gate with jet bridges attached.\" class=\"wp-image-39268814\"  \/>A United Airlines passenger was detained Saturday after allegedly attacking a crew member and trying to storm the cockpit on arrival at Newark Liberty Airport.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.01643836;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39268819\" width=\"600\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/737-max-declared-emergency-newark-126912645.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration of an airport with airplanes UAL1837 and UAL1143 on a radar screen.\" class=\"wp-image-39268819\"  \/>\u201cA gentleman just attacked one of the flight attendants and tried to open the forward main cabin door,\u201d the crew member continues. Air Traffic Control<\/p>\n<p>The crew member asks for emergency vehicles to come and meet the plane on the runway and deal with the passenger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA gentleman just attacked one of the flight attendants and tried to open the forward main cabin door,\u201d the crew member continues. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">United Airlines Flight 1837, a Boeing 737 Max, declared an emergency at Newark this evening after a passenger allegedly attacked a flight attendant and attempted to access the cockpit. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Bwls83oYEU\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Bwls83oYEU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breaking911 (@Breaking911) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Breaking911\/status\/2050750334075568442?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 3, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTried to gain access to the flight deck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh my god,\u201d the ATC worker responds.<\/p>\n<p>Police detained a 48-year-old passenger at the gate and took him to the hospital for a psychiatric evaluation,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/passenger-detained-newark-airport-incident-united-airlines-flight\/19025981\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ABC 7 reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some 170 passengers and six crew members were on board the Boeing 737 at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The injured crew member refused medical attention.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A crazed United Airlines passenger has been arrested after allegedly attacking a flight attendant and trying to storm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[3283,57,9,24,1086,63,134,136,135,15967,58],"class_list":["post-218353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-arrests","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newark-airport","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-united-airlines","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218353","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=218353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}