# Security audio details response to alleged hijack threat on United flight

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/illegal-immigrants-alleged-plane-hijack-scare-fuels-tense-security-scramble-after-door-was-breached-audio/
- Published: 2026-11-11T23:32:21+00:00
- Original publisher: Fox News (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.foxnews.com/us/illegal-immigrant-alleged-plane-hijack-scare-fuels-tense-security-scramble-door-breached-audio
- Topics: Culture, Cybersecurity, Technology, Travel, World

## Key points

- New audio reveals the security response to an alleged hijack threat.
- Responders said the aircraft’s rear door had been breached.
- No one was injured, and the suspect is held without bond.

## Summary

Newly released security audio captures emergency personnel coordinating as a suspect was held at the rear of a United Airlines aircraft after an alleged hijack threat. Responders discussed entering through the rear, keeping passengers together near their vehicles and ensuring the pilots stayed in the locked cockpit; no one was hurt.

The flight, United Airlines 2174, was travelling from Newark to New Orleans on Monday evening when the pilots raised the alarm. Rony Gomez-Alberto, 34, was arrested by Jefferson Parish sheriff’s deputies and is held without bond on charges including terrorising and communicating false information about planned arson. US officials said he had been deported twice, later re-entered the country illegally and was released by a judge in 2020.

## Coverage

- [Fox News: Security audio details response to alleged hijack threat on United flight](https://www.foxnews.com/us/illegal-immigrant-alleged-plane-hijack-scare-fuels-tense-security-scramble-door-breached-audio)
- [New York Post: Chilling audio reveals tense scramble during twice-deported illegal migrant’s alleged United hijack scare](https://nypost.com/2026/11/11/us-news/audio-reveals-tense-scramble-during-illegal-migrants-alleged-united-hijack/)

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