Does a video show a Muslim passenger being removed from a Southwest Airlines plane after threatening to blow up a Nashville-to-Fort Lauderdale flight in early October 2026? No, that’s not true: The video is from more than seven months earlier, on March 6, 2026, when the flight was diverted to Atlanta to “respond to a possible security matter,” which was later determined not to be a credible threat. A Southwest spokesperson told Lead Stories that “Nothing new occurred.”
The claim appeared in a post and video (archived here) by the @realJohnJohnJr account on X on Oct. 9, 2026. It read:
🚨BREAKING: @SouthwestAir Southwest Airlines Flight 2094 from Nashville to Fort Lauderdale, Florida was forced to divert to Atlanta late last night after a an Arabic looking Muslim passenger onboard the plane threatened to blow the plane up with a bomb!…