{"id":170178,"date":"2026-04-19T14:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T14:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/170178\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T14:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T14:34:14","slug":"united-airlines-plane-diverted-to-pittsburgh-due-to-security-threat-whio-tv-7-and-whio-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/170178\/","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines plane diverted to Pittsburgh due to security threat \u2013 WHIO TV 7 and WHIO Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania \u2014 A United Airlines flight from Chicago was diverted to Pittsburgh on Saturday morning for a security concern. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">The Allegheny County Bomb Squad (ACPD) was called to the Pittsburgh International Airport at 11:47 a.m., according to our sister station <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/united-airlines-flight-diverted-pittsburgh-due-potential-security-concern\/CDXWDBZ6SFDLZK6FM3ASHHFWU4\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/united-airlines-flight-diverted-pittsburgh-due-potential-security-concern\/CDXWDBZ6SFDLZK6FM3ASHHFWU4\/\">WXPI <\/a>in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">[DOWNLOAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whio.com\/mobile-apps\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.whio.com\/mobile-apps\/\">Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">TRENDING STORIES:<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">United Airlines flight 2092 was traveling from Chicago O\u2019Hare to New York LaGuardia, according to United Airlines. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">159 passengers and six crew members were safely evacuated from the plane. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">ACPD\u2019s EOD team and K9s did a sweep on the plane, passengers, and their luggage, with a negative result. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">The FBI Special Agent Bomb Techs and Special Agents assisted in the investigation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">[SIGN UP: <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.whio.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/membercenter.whio.com\/newsletters\">WHIO-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania \u2014 A United Airlines flight from Chicago was diverted to Pittsburgh on Saturday morning for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,757],"class_list":{"0":"post-170178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-pittsburgh","9":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","10":"tag-pittsburgh-news","11":"tag-wpxi"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170178","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=170178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}