A flight from the American Airlines was delayed more than four hours when a passenger arrived at Austin Airport with his WiFi hotspot rescued as 'I have a bomb'.
On Friday afternoon, the police boarded flight 2863, on their way to Charlotte and asked the passenger to identify himself, it could be a 'joke'.
'Cue the moan of the entire F *** ING plane when the agent announced this,' a passenger remembered, with choice words for the 'idiot' who refused to come forward.
All passengers were eventually pulled off the plane and kept in the gate before they were again screened at the security, view from the wing reports.
Luggage on board the aircraft was taken from the plane and left for inspection on the asphalt while the passengers were waiting in a sashed segment.
“In the end we were able to go on board again and to rise, but the whole thing was just so furious because they could not even determine who the hell did this,” a passenger shared.
The plane was eventually deleted after it was swept for explosives, and the plane eventually left at 6.15 pm local time, according to airport officials.
Reddit user Velvet violets shared an image of bags on the asphalt during the incident
American Airlines Flight 2863 would leave Austin, Texas on Friday at 1:42 PM and arrive in Charlotte, North Carolina, arrival at 5:23 pm.
Only when on board realized that passengers realized that something went out.
One passenger wrote on Reddit that 'everything was normal for the most part'.
'We went on board and once we were located, I took a nap. I woke up two hours later and was confused why we were still on the asphalt … “
Another passenger, who gave his name as a stone, told ABC News that he was traveling home when the incident happened.
A passenger walked to a stewardess with a tablet to 'show her something', the outlet reports before she called the cockpit.
The pilot then announced that the flight would return to the gate because of an 'administrative problem'.
The pilot later announced that “someone's hotspot renamed” there is a bomb on the flight “.
The gate was blocked, held with passengers for hours during the security incident
A police officer got on the plane and told passengers that the joke was not funny.
“If this is a joke, now raise your hand, because we can deal with the practical joke differently than when this … If we have to do a full investigation into what is going on here,” Sheen reminded the lieutenant as having said.
When nobody was in their hands, all passengers were asked to leave the plane.
Various K9 units were brought in to sniff around the luggage compartment of the plane, as well as the luggage drawn on the asphalt.
The plane was eventually deleted after it was swept for explosives, and the plane eventually left at 6.15 pm local time, according to airport officials.
Dailymail.com contacted American Airlines and Austin-Bergstrom International Airport for comments.
A similar incident in 2014 caused a 17-hour delay, when a passenger stepped on board an American Airlines flight with a hotspot that was stored as 'Al-Qida Free Terror Nettwork'.
The flight, from Lax to London, also returned to the gate after a stewardess on board the list of hotspots was shown while taxiing on the runway.
File photo. A similar incident happened on board a flight from an American Airlines in 2014
Passengers were forced from the plane, with some people staying in hotels at night during the long wait.
Kevin Simon, who lives in Orange County, comes from the UK, MailOnline told that the plane was stationary for an hour and a half before they returned to the gate.
Passengers were told that there was a 'small security problem' that had to be tackled, but the pilot and the crew never fully explained what was going on.
He added: 'Never once did the pilot mention what the exact problem was. I only discovered the WiFi -hotspot -name after I got home and googled for instructions.
'There were a few airport police on the Jetway near the door while we deplanted. When I passed them, they didn't seem to have arrested anyone. '
When contacted by MailOnline, a spokesperson for American Airlines confirmed that the aircraft returned to the gate after a passenger expressed 'safety problems' and that the flight was planned again.
