Flight diverts to Dulles after report of unruly passenger

A United Airlines flight was diverted to Dulles International Airport on Wednesday after a report of an unruly passenger.

The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority told WTOP that the flight, which left Newark, New Jersey, at about 8:30 a.m. headed for San Jose, Costa Rica, landed at Dulles around 10 a.m. The airport authority police and other authorities met the plane and took the passenger to a hospital.



The FBI is investigating, a spokesman for the airports authority said.

The flight left Dulles and continued on to San Jose.

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