Fake bomb threat derails Denver-bound Frontier flight in Nashville

A woman who had just boarded a Denver-bound flight was arrested in Tennessee this week after allegedly threatening people on the plane with a bomb, according to court records.

Frontier Airlines flight attendants told Nashville police the woman wasn’t allowed to fly because of how drunk she was, her arrest affidavit stated. The airline employees asked her to leave the plane multiple times, but the woman refused, allegedly saying, “I have a (expletive) bomb, so nobody is going anywhere.”

When police tried to remove the woman from the plane, she planted her feet behind the seats in an attempt to anchor herself. She then repeatedly yelled, “It’s right there,” in reference to the supposed bomb, according to her arrest affidavit.

The incident delayed the Denver-bound flight by more than two h