Plane passenger forces emergency landing after saying wife had luggage bomb

A plane flying from Dallas to Chicago had to make an emergency landing at Lambert St. Louis International Airport after a passenger claimed that there was a bomb in his wife’s luggage.

United Airlines Flight 380 landed in St. Louis on Sunday morning around 8:40 a.m. local time due to a potential concern, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

The flight crew evacuated all 119 passengers in order for bomb and arson units to search the plane.

United Airlines told People that law enforcement searched the aircraft before the flight was able to continue on to Chicago. Investigators used bomb-sniffing dogs to search the plane.

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