{"id":169597,"date":"2026-04-18T21:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T21:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/169597\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T21:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T21:10:09","slug":"united-airlines-flight-to-laguardia-diverted-to-pittsburgh-no-threat-found-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/169597\/","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines flight to LaGuardia diverted to Pittsburgh; no threat found, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A United Airlines flight bound for New York City was diverted to Pittsburgh International Airport\u00a0Saturday morning after a report prompted a response from the local police bomb squad. Authorities later determined there was no credible threat.<\/p>\n<p>Flight 2092, a Boeing 737 traveling from Chicago O&#8217;Hare International Airport to LaGuardia Airport, landed in Pittsburgh to address a &#8220;a potential security concern,&#8221; the airline said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a class=\"nd-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FBIPittsburgh\" rel=\"nofollow\">FBI&#8217;s Pittsburgh Division<\/a>\u00a0said in a statement that bomb techs and special agents responded to the threat. The Allegheny County Police Department said\u00a0its bomb squad was called in around 11:47 a.m. to assist with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Police and K9 units conducted a sweep of the plane, passengers and luggage, but officials said no explosives or other credible threats were found, according to an Allegheny County Police Department Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft&#8217;s 159 passengers and six crew members were evacuated &#8220;safely&#8221; upon landing using emergency slides, United said in the statement. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>Alek Lewis covers the towns of Southampton, East Hampton and Shelter Island for Newsday. He previously worked as a reporter for RiverheadLOCAL, where he received awards from the New York Press Association and the Press Club of Long Island for his reporting on local government and politics. A Riverhead native, he is a graduate of Stony Brook University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A United Airlines flight bound for New York City was diverted to Pittsburgh International Airport\u00a0Saturday morning after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[238,73,75,74,2155],"class_list":{"0":"post-169597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-new-york-city","9":"tag-pittsburgh","10":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","11":"tag-pittsburgh-news","12":"tag-transportation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169597","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=169597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}