United Airlines flight makes emergency landing after flyer says there was bomb in wife’s luggage

A United Airlines flight on its way to Chicago was forced to make an emergency landing in Missouri Sunday after a passenger said there was a bomb in his wife’s luggage, according to reports and authorities.

United Flight 380 from Dallas to Chicago landed in St. Louis on Sunday morning due to a potential security concern, a United Airlines spokesperson said in a statement to The Post.

The plane was diverted to St. Louis Lambert International Airport around 8:40 a.m. after a man “said there was a bomb in his wife’s luggage,” sources told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Getty Images

The plane was diverted to St. Louis Lambert International Airport around 8:40 a.m. after a man said there was a bomb in a piece of his wife’s luggage, sources told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

The allegedly unwieldy man was arrested, the outlet said.

His identity or whether he has been charged is not immediately clear.

All 119 passengers were promptly evacuated and waited on the concourse upon landing, the airport’s director, Rhonda Hamm-Niebruegge, told the outlet.

Bomb and arson teams were dispatched to the Boeing 737-700 and were still searching it more than two hours after it landed, the outlet reported.

Law enforcement successfully searched and cleared the aircraft. AP

Law enforcement successfully searched and cleared the aircraft, according to United Airlines.

The flight took off from St. Louis in the afternoon and landed safely in Chicago, the airline said.

The incident comes after multiple bomb threats have sparked chaos aboard flights in recent weeks.

On Nov. 4, a caller allegedly threatened that a United Airlines flight would explode upon landing at Virginia’s Reagan Washington National Airport unless air traffic controllers forked over $500,000 in crypto.

Flights at the airport were briefly grounded as emergency vehicles swarmed the runway.

Later that day, a Delta Airlines flight was evacuated at LaGuardia airport after the crew reported a bomb threat.

St. Louis Lambert International Airport officials did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.