US student confessed to hoax bomb threat on Texas flight

The Texas Department of Public Safety said that while the flight was taxiing on Feb 17 at El Paso International Airport, passengers got a message on their Apple devices via AirDrop saying: ‘I have a bomb would like to share a photo’. — Photo by Jonathan Kemper on Unsplash

EL PASO, Texas: A high school student confessed to sending a hoax bomb threat via AirDrop that resulted in an American Airlines flight being diverted from the tarmac at a Texas airport last week, authorities said.

The Texas Department of Public Safety said that while the flight was taxiing on Friday (Feb 17) at El Paso International Airport, passengers got a message on their Apple devices via AirDrop saying: “I have a bomb would like to share a photo.” In the statement released Feb 20, the agency said that because of that message, the aircraft taxied back to a gate.