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Old May 30, 2026 | 11:22 pm
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United flight turned around over Atlantic as a boy named his Bluetooth device “bomb”

LiveATC.net audio archives from the Newark ramp and company frequencies later confirmed that a passenger (reported to be a 16-year-old boy) had customized the discoverable network name of his personal Bluetooth speaker to read “BOMB”. Because Bluetooth signals broadcast to any nearby smartphones or laptops looking to pair, the name popped up on the screens of passengers and crew members inside the cabin, instantly triggering a standard bomb-threat protocol.
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