United Airlines plane forced to evacuate over bomb threat at Denver airport

A United Airlines plane with around 200 passengers on board was forced to evacuate over a bomb threat at Denver airport on Sunday, April 19.

Denver International Airport confirmed with FOX31 that a bomb threat was reported and that 200 passengers and seven crew members were able to evacuate safely while the plane was on the tarmac.

United Airlines told FOX31 that there was a “security concern” and that the flight deplaned safely via airstairs, at which point the aircraft was screened and cleared. Passengers were returned to the gate, where they were provided food and water.

The flight was ultimately able to depart for Washington at 11:33 p.m., more than five hours after its originally scheduled departure time of 5:59 p.m.

The Allegheny County Police Bomb Squad told the outlet its Explosive Ordinance Disposal team and bomb sniffing dogs conducted a sweep which had “negative results” for bombs.

“Our EOD team and K9s conducted a sweep of the aircraft, passengers and luggage with negative results,” the department told the outlet.

The scare came just a day after a United Airlines flight heading to LaGuardia was diverted to Pittsburgh over fears of a potential bomb on board.

“We are going to have to start treating this as a potential bomb… we are going to need to go and start a diversion and get things settled. It’s a beeping noise, sequential, one beep per second,” a crew member said, in audio posted to liveatc.com.