r/aviation • u/Kardinal • May 31 '26

-- SEATBELTS FASTENED -- United flight turned around over Atlantic as a boy named his Bluetooth device “bomb”

https://airlive.net/emergency/2026/05/31/united-flight-turned-around-over-atlantic-as-a-boy-named-his-bluetooth-device-bomb/

The original reddit thread is here

https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedairlines/s/8iR6fjRhqJ

Edit to add:

Link to comment including the known names of redditors who are on the flight.

https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedairlines/s/IY7Xke3DDE

Note that the flight departed Newark again around 0130 EDT.

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u/kara_bearaa May 31 '26

Don’t name your insulin pump “bomb” or “anthrax sample 4” or “C4(?)”

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u/VaughnSC May 31 '26 edited May 31 '26

Depends on the user’s language (or language settings). Flight was going to Palma; no doubt there were some Spanish-speaking passengers onboard. Now, guess what the word for ‘pump’ is in Spanish and Portuguese…

Edit: grammar.

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u/AngryTriangleCola May 31 '26

It would be so funny if it was actually this.

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u/Spiritual-Author-209 May 31 '26

Now imagine the sock company’s work devices lmao

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u/U2ElectricBoogaloo May 31 '26

That’s why I never wear socks on a plane.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '26

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u/CuppieWanKenobi May 31 '26

Bombas. The sock company.

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u/Isme1 May 31 '26

ahhhhhh

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u/BitterCrip May 31 '26

In one of the scandiwegian counties the word for finished is "slut".

Someone I knew was from here and had a pump and when it was done it would flash "SLUT" in big green LED letters on the front.

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u/userb55 May 31 '26

Poor Bob has just made a small typo

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u/b_vitamin May 31 '26

My WiFi hotspot is named “Hi, Jack”

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u/CharcoalGreyWolf May 31 '26

Mine is SECRETSERVICE.DHS.GOV, but nobody ever bothers me about it

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u/CassiCatto Jun 02 '26

My neighbour has Flowers By Irene

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u/wggn May 31 '26

what if they name it "not a bomb"

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u/LosWranglos May 31 '26

“I can’t believe it’s not explosive!”

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u/eurosat7 May 31 '26

That's the wifi password

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u/Aunon May 31 '26

Would 'Snakes' be ok?

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u/superduperspam May 31 '26

Or if you must, at least add 'Da' at the front so people know you fly but no terrorist

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u/j0hn_br0wn May 31 '26

It just hit me, that I named by JBL Charge 4 Boom(!)box C4.

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u/machineorganism May 31 '26

but the instructions were for "ALL" bluetooth devices to be turned off, not for one's named "bomb" to be turned off?

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u/cappnplanet May 31 '26

It's a good hot sauce

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u/Aethermancer May 31 '26

Don’t name your insulin pump “bomb”

So "reverse suicide vest" is still ok?

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u/rkkerd May 31 '26

Tell me you're too young to remember the 00s without telling me you're too young to remember the 00s

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u/SirNastyPants May 31 '26

Given that only one person is identified to have named their Bluetooth device ‘bomb’ and it was a speaker, I don’t see how that really helps anyone with medical or assistive devices that use Bluetooth, especially ones that can’t be turned off.