Airplane explosives threat? The name of the hotspot...
Feb 13, 2025
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According to local media such as ABC News, American Airlines Flight 2863, which was scheduled to depart from Austin, Texas, for Charlotte, North Carolina at 1:42 p.m. on the 7th (local time), was delayed due to suspected explosives.
The reason was because of the name of the hotspot.
A passenger who was using a tablet PC found the name 'bomb installed' among active Wi-Fi hotspots.
He showed it to the crew. The flight attendant immediately alerted the cockpit, and the pilot broadcasted in-flight that the plane would return to the gate due to 'administrative issues'.
Airport police and officials asked the passengers, who named the hot spot 'bomb', to tell them now, but no one raised their hands.
Eventually, all passengers had to get off the plane and show their hotspots to police and officials one by one.
When no suspicious passengers were found, police used detection dogs to check the luggage compartment of the plane.
Fortunately, there was no baggage that appeared to be an explosive, and the plane departed at about 6:15 p.m.
A police official stressed that `even if it's a joke, we shouldn't use hotspot names that can be a threat.'
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
