{"id":1011590,"date":"2026-06-02T09:40:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T04:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1011590"},"modified":"2026-06-02T10:05:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T04:35:31","slug":"bluetooth-security-threat-forces-spain-bound-united-airlines-flight-to-turn-back-to-new-jersey-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/02\/bluetooth-security-threat-forces-spain-bound-united-airlines-flight-to-turn-back-to-new-jersey-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bluetooth security threat\u2019 forces Spain-bound United Airlines flight to turn back to New Jersey airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still not turning your mobile phone to Airplane mode during air travel? A United Airlines flight was forced to divert back mid-flight to the US airport it had departed from on Saturday (US time) due to a potential security threat involving Bluetooth devices. <\/p>\n<p>Pilots on board the Spain-bound Boeing 767 aircraft had no choice but to land back at Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) in New Jersey, USA, around 9:30 pm Saturday, merely hours after taking off for Palma de Mallorca, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. <\/p>\n<p>Given the circumstances, 190 passengers experienced significant delays on their way to Spain. 12 crew members were also on board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still not turning your mobile phone to Airplane mode during air travel? A United Airlines flight was forced to divert back mid-flight to the US airport it had departed from on Saturday (US time) due to a potential security threat involving Bluetooth devices. Pilots on board the Spain-bound Boeing 767 aircraft had no choice but to land back at Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) in New Jersey, USA, around 9:30 pm Saturday, merely hours after taking off for Palma de Mallorca, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Given the circumstances, 190 passengers experienced significant delays [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011614,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011590\/revisions\/1011614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}