{"id":218422,"date":"2026-05-03T19:40:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T19:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/218422\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T19:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T19:40:06","slug":"news-12-connecticut-unruly-passenger-detained-after-altercation-on-united-flight-at-newark-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/218422\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Connecticut | Unruly Passenger Detained After Altercation On United Flight At Newark Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">An unruly passenger incident prompted a law enforcement response Saturday evening on a United Airlines flight arriving at Newark Liberty International Airport.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Port Authority police say they received a report of an altercation aboard United flight 1837 at approximately 6:03 p.m. as the aircraft approached Terminal B. When the plane reached the gate, officers detained a 48-year-old man without incident. He was transported to a hospital for a psychiatric evaluation.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Authorities say one individual declined medical attention, and no other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">United Airlines said local law enforcement met the flight upon arrival to address the situation and credited its crew for maintaining safety onboard.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The flight, UA1837, traveled from Poppy Field Airport in Indiana to Newark Airport and carried 170 passengers and six crew members on a Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An unruly passenger incident prompted a law enforcement response Saturday evening on a United Airlines flight arriving at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-218422","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\/218422","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=218422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}