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6 July 2023 / SF News / Joe Kukura


AIRDROP BOMB THREAT FORCES HAWAII-BOUND FLIGHT TO DIVERT TO OAKLAND

A flight attendant on a Southwest Airlines flight received an AirDrop image that
appeared to be a bomb threat earlier this week, so the Vegas-to-Maui flight was
forced to make a brief stop in Oakland. No bombs were found, but passengers
recorded some scary TikToks.

KRON4 has the news of a Southwest Airlines Las Vegas-to-Maui flight Monday that
was diverted to Oakland over an apparent bomb threat. The  Alameda County
Sheriff’s Department, TSA, Oakland Airport Operations, and Airport Police
Services all intervened, and no bomb was found. But SFGate has some eye-opening
follow-up reporting, including TikTok video from the bomb search, and the detail
that a flight attendant could be overheard saying “Get me the fuck off this
plane, get me the fuck off this plane.”

As for the bomb threat itself, it was apparently an image that someone (possibly
a passenger) sent to a flight attendant and other passengers using the Apple
service AirDrop. The attendant alerted authorities two and a half hours after
the flight took off from Las Vegas.

“It sounded like it was a photo that was taken of our plane and the people on
it, saying, ‘I’m going to blow this bitch up,’” passenger Valerie Maluchnik told
SFGate. “I didn’t see it myself. But that’s what other people said that received
the threats.”

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Passengers were initially told there was a mechanical issue. But once the
aircraft landed in Oakland, as seen in the TikTok video above, an Alameda County
Sheriff’s deputy informed them that it was some sort of “security incident.”

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Passengers did not disembark to a terminal, and were forced to go directly onto
the runway while authorities conducted a bomb sweep.

Southwest Airlines acknowledged to incident in a statement to KRON4. “We can
confirm flight 3316 on Monday afternoon diverted to Oakland from its intended
path, Las Vegas to Maui, and later continued on to Maui. We’d defer additional
questions to local authorities who met the aircraft," the statement said. “We
place no priority higher than Safety and we’re grateful for patience and
understanding during this delayed journey to Hawaii.“

Passengers were forced to switch planes, and the flight eventually did land in
Maui. There are currently no suspects or arrests in this incident, but the FBI
is investigating.



Related: Woman Shouting Threats and Profanities at Flight Attendant Causes
Alaska Flight Out of SFO to Be Diverted [SFist]

Image: Miguel Ángel Sanz via Unsplash



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Joe Kukura is an SFist staff asst. editor / reporter who has been published in
almost every San Francisco publication, including Hoodline, SF Weekly,
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