{"id":341845,"date":"2026-09-09T14:50:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T14:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/341845\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T14:50:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T14:50:20","slug":"united-flight-passenger-becomes-unruly-on-way-to-newark-airport-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/341845\/","title":{"rendered":"United flight passenger becomes unruly on way to Newark Airport \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Newark-bound United Airlines jet with nearly 300 passengers and crew members aboard had to make an unscheduled stop in Maine Tuesday over an unruly passenger, authorities say.<\/p>\n

United Airlines Flight 18 departed Italy’s Milano Maplensa Airport for its eight-plus-hour trek to New Jersey. It’s not clear when the passenger allegedly became unruly, and authorities didn’t elaborate on the behavior. <\/p>\n

Law enforcement met the aircraft when it stopped in Bangor and took the person off the plane. The flight continued to Newark, where it landed safely. <\/p>\n

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) confirmed the stopover and said it would investigate.<\/p>\n

It’s at least the second diversion involving an unruly passenger on a Newark-bound flight within a week.<\/p>\n

Last Thursday, a 67-year-old Arizona man allegedly became disruptive on American Airlines Flight 618, flying from Dallas to Newark. Multiple passengers worked together to duct-tape him to his seat. The passenger has been charged with disorderly conduct and assault. <\/a>He also got fired from his job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Newark-bound United Airlines jet with nearly 300 passengers and crew members aboard had to make an unscheduled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1066,9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-341845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-jersey","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\/341845","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=341845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}