CLEVELAND-
An airliner bound for New Jersey was diverted to Cleveland after a passenger was accused of saying he had a bomb.
The man, identified only as a 37-year-old from Oak Ridge, N.J., was arrested Monday night and was being questioned by local and federal law enforcement.
He acted disoriented but it wasn’t immediately known what caused his confused behavior or whether he was somehow impaired when he allegedly told a passenger sitting next to him that he had a bomb, said Cleveland Hopkins International Airport spokeswoman Pat Smith.
FBI special agent Scott Wilson said Tuesday morning that he was checking to see if the man had been charged. No bomb was found, said police Lt. Thomas Stacho.
Continental Express Flight 2772, bound from Cincinnati to Newark, N.J., carried 14 passengers and three crew members.
The crew opted to divert to Cleveland as a precaution, Continental spokeswoman Julie King said.
“The chances of an actual bomb being on board is extremely slim,” Smith said. “But you still don’t dismiss it.”
