The pilots of a United Airlines flight from Chicago O’Hare to Minneapolis declared a Level 4 passenger threat just 20 minutes after takeoff and made an emergency diversion to Madison after a Russian citizen on board the plane reportedly attempted to breach the cockpit.
The alert was taken so seriously that United Airlines sent a broadcast message to all of its other airborne flights, alerting pilots of the situation so that they could keep their cockpits secure in the event that the incident was part of a coordinated attack.
United Airlines flight UA-2005 departed Chicago O’Hare at around 8:30 pm on Friday for what should have been a routine two-hour flight to Minneapolis…