A deranged passenger who claimed he had a bomb aboard a New Orleans-bound United Airlines flight and then tried to rush the cockpit, has been identified.
Officials told the Post that Rony Alexander Gomez-Alberto was arrested without incident, after the 34-year-old prompted pilots to send out a hijacking alert when he allegedly threatened to blow up the plane and rushed toward the cockpit.
And this wasn’t Gomez-Alberto’s first run in with the law.
According to immigration officials, the Honduras native was arrested on three separate occasions by Border Patrol for illegally entering the United States. He was also deported back to his home country twice — first in 2011 near El Indio, Texas and then again in 2014 in Columbus, New Mexico.
Read more at https://nypost.com/2026/11/10/us-news/united-flight-departing-newark-sends-out-hijack-alert-after-passenger-claiming-to-have-bomb-attempted-to-storm-cockpit/
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