A United Airlines flight heading to LaGuardia was hastily diverted to Pittsburgh after pilots feared there was a “potential bomb” on board.
United Flight 2092 was heading to The Empire State from Chicago’s O’Hare Airport early Saturday when the pilots heard a beeping noise and decided to divert the flight, according to audio of the flight crew’s conversation posted to liveatc.com.
“We are going to have to start treating this as a potential bomb… we are going to need to go and start a diversion and get things settled. It’s a beeping noise, sequential, one beep per second,” a crew member said.
The plane landed at Pittsburgh International Airport at 11:45 a.m., WCVB reported.
The Boeing 737‘s 159 passengers and 6 crew members exited the plane safely via slides and no injuries were reported, a United representative told The Post in a statement.
