A passenger on board a Hawaiian Airlines flight made a false bomb threat and was removed from the aircraft in San Diego on Tuesday.
The Navy electronics technician told a flight attendant on Hawaiian flight 15 that the passenger seated next to him onboard the Airbus A330 in economy had a bomb as they prepared to depart for Honolulu. Passengers report he was behaving suspiciously and was possibly drunk.
The captain halted the departure process, emergency vehicles surrounded the plane, and armed FBI agents boarded the aircraft. Initially passengers were told there was a ‘technical issue’ but that was clearly false when government agents, rather than mechanics, boarded the plane with weapons and not tools.
Here’s some of my clips from yesterday’s bomb scare on Hawaiian flight HA15 from San Diego to Honolulu. We made it home safe around 5 pm. Hawaiian Airlines treated us very well .@HawaiianAir @StarAdvertiser @KHONnews @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/qGYZ8fXYyF
— Chad Nelson (@ChadNelson808) May 21, 2025
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Everyone was removed from the aircraft (leaving their bags on board – taking only cell phone and wallet). Bomb-sniffing dogs were used in a search of the aircraft and luggage, and no threats were found.
The man faces fines and incarceration up to one year on charges of:
- making a false bomb threat under California Penal Code (PC) 148.1
- filing a false report of a security threat under San Diego County Regional Airport Authority Code 7.07.
The flight departed for Honolulu at around five hours later.
(HT: Live and Let’s Fly)
Navy, Army… everybody involved in any way with the military is a loser looking for valor
War is an atrocity and militaries should not exist.
You don’t even joke about this. Period.
@Un — That’s an absurd take. No. Just. No. Not even gonna address merits.
@1990 – not a single ambitious talented person goes, “I’m going to join the military”
@Un
The military academies are filled with ambitious talented cadets. You sir are full of it.
@Un — Wow, a ‘strawman’ for the ages. There are contemporaries, too, but I’d start with Napoleon Bonaparte, Alexander the Great, George Patton, Julius Caesar, and Ulysses S. Grant. Talent, ambition, and more.
Put the top military academy student up against the median at Harvard or MIT and you’ll see how foolish your claim is
The military is for dumb losers. Full stop.
@Un — Ah, another logical fallacy; comparing apples to oranges. Nice try. What else you got?
@1990 — Apples and oranges? I know you’re smarter than that my guy, why don’t you act like a New Yorker and tell it like it is. Military: for dummies. Harvard/MIT: for smart people.
@Un
I agree, there are only 2 kinds of people that join the US military.
Morons
Poor People.
I don’t respect them, I think they are scumbags.
@Un
I agree, there are only 2 kinds of people that join the US military.
Morons
Poor People.
I don’t respect them, I think they are scumbags.
@Un — Show some respect. It’s literally Fleet Week here… sheesh!
@Walter Barry — At least you consistently have bad takes on here, too.
@1990 – war is bad. I oppose it vehemently. The military should not exist.
With you on this, 100% @1990 and Kirk.
I wonder if the person he falsely accused can sue him.
It would be nice if there were serious financial consequences for drunk people acting up on planes. Serious financial consequences. A few headlines of drunk idiots losing their car or home over their behavior might help tame such behavior.
Gary,. you cite State of California statue, but this is probably going to get handled at the federal level, especially if federal law enforcement were involved
I see the special needs class got out early today. Those losers safeguard your right to spout off idiotic comments. In most countries they do the opposite. But they always exist, and will always have power, despite your naive and idealistic views.
@Un sadly giving you the attention you so obviously crave by responding, but that said: “@1990 – war is bad. I oppose it vehemently. The military should not exist.”. Yeah, that would be great, wouldn’t it, if we could all just get along? Ready to get rid of the police, too?
News flash, fella, most people in the military agree that war is bad, given that they’re the ones out there fighting it, bleeding, and dying. BUT, they’re willing (not eager, willing) to hang their asses out over the crack, for whatever reasons they decided to join, to serve their country. Disagree all you want with the idea of war, but at least respect the fact that people are willing to put on the uniform and defend you and your right to badmouth them. Now, when YOU figure out how to get everyone to melt their swords into plowshares all at the same time and we can disestablish all militaries worldwide, you let us know and I’ll get you nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
As for lack of intelligence or ambition (“Military: for dummies. Harvard/MIT: for smart people.”), what a load of hogwash, this is a massive red herring. And if you’re as smart as you’re trying to project yourself as being, and if you’re not simply some troll or bot, you know that. Or should…
First and foremost, not every intelligent and ambitious person WANTS to attend Harvard, MIT, or their ilk (or, perhaps you’ll simply define them as stupid and unambitious for that lack of desire, thereby validating your own argument?), nor do they have the resources. Even if they did, those schools don’t have the capacity to matriculate every smart and ambitious person in the US, much less in the world. And frankly, none of us should want every smart and ambitious person attending the same small set of schools, we need a greater diversity of thought and experiences.
I won’t even go into the statistics around people being admitted because daddy donated a building, or their ancestor attended so they have a leg up as a legacy, or they went to the right prep school so their counselor knows someone at the admissions office, or mommy had enough money to bribe a swim coach to get them in as an athlete, and on and on. But we all know that’s an issue.
Oh, and since you hate the military so much (“The military is for dumb losers”), be sure to decline help from the National Guard during the next natural disaster in your area, since they’ll be the ones responding to help. Come to think of it, I guess you should also start asking everyone who provides you a service (doctor, nurse, veterinarian, EMT, air traffic controller, firefighter, flight attendant, airline pilot, teacher, professor, etc) if they’re a vet, and refusing service from them if they are, because by your definition they probably aren’t good enough to assist you.
Bottom line, you seem to have an overly simplistic view of the world and a very narrow definition of smart and ambitious. I can’t tease out if you’re a troll, an Ivy League grad who thinks his poo doesn’t stink, a guy who got bounced out of bootcamp for incompatibility, or what. But you’re an interesting case.
I didn’t attend Harvard or MIT and I can guarantee I make many times more than Un will ever in his lifetime.
I saw this headline and it helped me to see why Un has his views of military members.
“Vance says Chief Justice “wrong” on judiciary’s role in checking executive branch”
I lost count on how many stupid post Unintelligent made, and Water Berry needed to repeat his stupidity. I haven’t heard such stupidity since Trump made his asinine comments on John McCain.
@Un. MIT, Stanford, and Harvard all have ROTC programs. Former General David Petraeus has a PHD from Princeton. Former Rear Admiral Paul Sohl has a Bachelor of Science from MIT and a Master of Science in aeronautical and astronautical engineering from Stanford (sounds like a real moron). Those are just some random examples. It sounds like you could use some better education.
First: I am a Veteran and proudly say so. So is my Brother and my late Father. None of us are “scumbags”! To say that any military person is a lowlife, scumbag, etc. proves that those who profess this notion are the reason that instructions printed on shampoo bottles. Secondly, this Navy person is gonna get jail time (I hope) but worse…a less than honorable discharge. That will follow him for the rest of his life. That will just about cinch him getting a low paying job..if that. Buh bye!
Thanks BC for saying what I was thinking.
BC, I agree with Dave W. Thanks for saying what I was thinking but didn’t/couldn’t express it so eloquently!
A decade or two on the no-fly list seems particularly appropriate in this case.