Bomb threat on a Chicago-bound plane leads to emergency landing in St. Louis

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( NewsNation ) — A United Airlines flight from Dallas heading to Chicago had to divert and make an emergency landing in St. Louis after a passenger made a bomb threat onboard.

Lambert St. Louis International Airport director Rhonda Hamm-Niebruegge told NewsNation that the flight from Dallas took off shortly before 7 a.m. local time and landed at the airport unexpectedly around 8:40 a.m., where flight crew took passengers off the plane so it could be searched by law enforcement.

Sources told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that a man on the flight announced that there was a bomb in a piece of his wife’s luggage. The man was ar