CNN, MS NOW, NYT turn blind eye on illegal immigrant accused of bomb threat, attempting to storm cockpit

Several legacy news organizations did not cover the arrest of an illegal immigrant accused of making a bomb threat and attempting to storm the cockpit of a United Airlines flight, according to a review of their coverage.Rony Alexander Gomez-Alberto, a Honduran national who had previously been deported from the United States twice, was arrested by the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office after United Airlines Flight 2174 landed at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport after a frightening midair disturbance Monday night. Gomez-Alberto allegedly (and falsely) claimed to have a bomb and attempted to enter the cockpit. CNN and MS NOW both failed to mention the story throughout any of their programs through Wednesday, Grabien transcripts show.TWICE-DEPORTED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ACCUSED OF TRYING TO STORM UNITED COCKPIT, THREATENING BOMB: DHSRony Alexander Gomez-Alberto, a Honduran national DHS says was deported twice, was arrested following an alleged cockpit breach attempt aboard a United Airlines flight on Nov.9, 2026.

(Courtesy Department of Homeland Security)Neither ABC nor NBC covered the arrest in their national morning and evening newscasts, transcripts also reveal. Notably, ABC's "World News Tonight" covered a separate United flight from Tokyo that made an emergency landing due to an unruly passenger as well as an emergency landing at O'Hare International Airport after a Frontier jet began flooding with water due to a lavatory plumbing issue. ABC also ran a report about an 8-year-old Haitian boy who was separated from his family by ICE agents in San Diego.The New York Times also had not published a story about the incident as of Thursday morning, according to a search of the newspaper's website.ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT’S ALLEGED PLANE HIJACK SCARE FUELS TENSE SECURITY SCRAMBLE AFTER DOOR WAS ‘BREACHED’: AUDIOLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport in New Orleans, Louisiana.(Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images)Media Research Center P...