{"id":31338,"date":"2026-05-30T09:50:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T09:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/flight-diverted-to-madison-after-unruly-passenger-detained-news\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T09:50:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T09:50:24","slug":"flight-diverted-to-madison-after-unruly-passenger-detained-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/flight-diverted-to-madison-after-unruly-passenger-detained-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight diverted to Madison after unruly passenger detained | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" false=\"\">\n                                <meta itemprop=\"isAccessibleForFree\" content=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>MADISON, Wis. &#8212; The Dane County Sheriff&#8217;s Office is responding after a flight was diverted to the Dane County Regional Airport following an incident, the sheriff&#8217;s office confirmed to News 3 Now.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff&#8217;s office was not aware of any injuries or threats to the general public stemming from the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Online flight logs show a United Boeing 737-900 series aircraft, which is configured to carry 179 passengers, took off from Chicago&#8217;s O&#8217;Hare Airport bound for Minneapolis but diverted to Madison.<\/p>\n<p>In an update, a Dane County Regional Airport spokesperson said an unruly passenger was detained and handcuffed on the flight by off-duty officers. Federal authorities are taking over proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>Passengers on the flight were forced to deplane, and United Airlines is working to ensure they reach their destination.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a breaking news story. Follow News 3 Now and <a href=\"http:\/\/Channel3000.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Channel3000.com<\/a> for further updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u200bCOPYRIGHT 2026 BY CHANNEL 3000. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MADISON, Wis. &#8212; The Dane County Sheriff&#8217;s Office is responding after a flight was diverted to the Dane County Regional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_animmysite_disable_animation":false,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/channel3000.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/0\/05\/0057a5b7-fc52-45a2-8e1a-a836637432f1\/6a1a5f27a490b.image.png?crop=1920%2C1008%2C0%2C35&resize=1200%2C630&order=crop%2Cresize","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}