Last week, a United Airlines flight going from Newark, N.J., to Palma de Mallorca, Spain, did not get to its destination before the pilot hung a uey and went back to New Jersey.
It was all because there appears to have been a suspiciously named Bluetooth device on board.
And they were 4 hours and 24 minutes into what was supposed to be an eight-hour flight!
The friendly skies of United said in an email to NPR that the flight turned around "to address a potential security concern." Posts on social media from other passengers said that a Bluetooth device on board the plane was the problem.
All anyone knew was that the flight attendants were asking everyone to shut off their devices, and this communication was overheard on air traffic control radio:
"There's a security detail out there, someone had a Bluetooth speaker and they named it a certain four-letter word," another voice responded. "So they have to inspect the whole aircraft including the cargo area [and] passengers have to evacuate."
It turns out that the four-letter word was not a curse word per se, but some genius named his Bluetooth network "Bomb."
Smart, son.
Everything was checked out and the flight took off again, missing a few hours of Sangria time and getting to Palma de Mallorca nine and a half hours late.
I hope it's not a problem that I named my wifi "IT HURTS WHEN IP."
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