{"id":169503,"date":"2026-04-18T17:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T17:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/169503\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T17:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T17:55:09","slug":"flight-heading-to-new-york-from-chicago-diverts-to-pittsburgh-for-possible-security-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/169503\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight heading to New York from Chicago diverts to Pittsburgh for &#8220;possible security issue&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A United flight traveling from Chicago to New York City diverted to Pittsburgh International Airport on Saturday afternoon for what was described as a &#8220;possible security issue.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to information provided by the Allegheny County Airport Authority, United Flight 2092 diverted to Pittsburgh and landed safely.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/divertedflightpit.png#.png\" alt=\"divertedflightpit.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  United Flight 2092 from O&#8217;Hare (Chicago) to LaGuardia (NYC) diverted to Pittsburgh International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>                KDKA Photojournalist Anthony Sichi<\/p>\n<p>The passengers have deplaned safely, and no injuries have been reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The plane was diverted and landed at Pittsburgh International Airport,&#8221; FBI Pittsburgh said in a statement provided to KDKA-TV. &#8220;All passengers and crew safely evacuated the aircraft. FBI Special Agent Bomb Techs and Special Agents are on the ground coordinating with local authorities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The airport authority has said that law enforcement is on the scene and investigating.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story, and will be updated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A United flight traveling from Chicago to New York City diverted to Pittsburgh International Airport on Saturday afternoon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[66853,76341,73,75,6846,74],"class_list":["post-169503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-laguardia-airport","tag-o039hare-international-airport","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-international-airport","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}