Undocumented immigrant identified after bomb threat on United Airlines flight

A passenger who allegedly claimed to have a bomb and tried to rush the cockpit aboard a New Orleans bound United Airlines flight on Monday night has been identified as Rony Alexander Gomez Alberto. The New York Post reported that federal immigration officials identified the thirty four year old Honduran national following the incident on United Airlines flight 2174 out of New Jersey. [1]

A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told the New York Post that Gomez Alberto was arrested on three separate occasions by the United States Border Patrol for entering the country illegally. Immigration officials stated that he was previously deported twice, first in September 2011 near El Indio, Texas, and again in October 2014 in Columbus, New Mexico. [1]

As FTMQ News reported earlier, this is not the first security incident involving a United Airlines flight in recent weeks. In October 2026, a twenty five year old New Jersey man named Dante Milne was charged after allegedly sending a text message threatening to hijack United Airlines Flight 1681 during a flight from Las Vegas to Newark, an act he later claimed was a drunken joke. [5]