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Bomb Threat Diverts United Flight to St. Louis and Separate RFA Sea Search Ends in Ireland

Authorities opened investigations into both incidents.

Terminal One at St. Louis Lambert International Airport, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Flights at the airport have recently increased, with 64 non-stop cities served, including 6 international destinations. Terminal designed by architect Minoru Yamasaki.
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Overview

  • A United Airlines flight from Dallas–Fort Worth to Chicago diverted and landed at Lambert St. Louis around 8:40 a.m. after a reported bomb threat.
  • Police met the aircraft and arrested a passenger, and all other passengers were evacuated, according to airport director Rhonda Hamm-Niebruegge.
  • Bomb and arson personnel were still searching the aircraft at 10:45 a.m. local time.
  • Sources cited by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch said the arrested man claimed a bomb was in his wife's luggage, a detail not independently confirmed.
  • Separately, a multi-agency search for a missing RFA Tidesurge crew member between Tory Island and Eagle Island concluded without a find, with the family informed and a Ministry of Defence investigation under way.