Passenger allegedly boards United Airlines flight with fake boarding pass, forcing plane back to gate

NY Post ^ | 6-6-26 | Brittany Miller

[dynachrome]

A Houston man is facing a felony charge after authorities say he used a fraudulent boarding pass to board a United Airlines flight at George Bush Intercontinental Airport before the aircraft was forced to return to the gate, according to court documents reviewed by Fox News Digital.

Abdulrahman Oluwatumike Oriyomi, 25, has been charged with impairing or interrupting the operation of a critical infrastructure facility in connection with the May 18 incident, according to a criminal complaint filed in Harris County.

Prosecutors later sought a $25,000 bond, arguing that the alleged incident delayed a flight carrying a full plane of passengers for approximately three hours and prompted responses from multiple agencies, including the Houston Police Department, the FBI, Houston Airports and the Transportation Security Administration.

[kawhill]

Well, that’s the problem right there, he’s a New York Mets fan. Their record is 28-35 right now.

[BradyLS]

😄

[PghBaldy]

haven’t eaten in about a week I’m so hungry when I walk I squeak
Nobody calls me friend it’s sad the shape I’m in
Going back to Houston, Houston, Houston.

[HombreSecreto]

Give him the DB Cooper treatment over his country of origin. He can make his own parachute, since he’s so crafty.

[MV=PY]

Lately I’ve only seen them scan the boarding pass at the gate. ID only at TSA security checkpoint.

[maro]

Because of 9/11.

[Liz]

Nigerian perp Abdulrahman-Oriyomi

[Freee-dame]

The number of times that this article uses the word “allegedly“ or “ attempted” is ridiculous. I do not understand why it needs to be used for an action that is observed and on videotape. I hardly recall the word allegedly being used for any of the dishonest accusations against President Trump

[Red Badger]

He’s my Nigerian prince!......... 😜

[BradyLS]

Let’s all be glad an alert attendant caught him. Especially with the aircraft taxiing away from the gate. People had to be pissed!

[BradyLS]

I’m thinking that pass would not pass a scan. Probably slipped into the line and some discrepancy in seating was discovered once the doors were closed.

[dinodino]

Fraudulent document, so yeah.

[FlingWingFlyer]

The SOB isn’t even an American. Make the boy buy the fuel that was wasted.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Houston MEN don’t have handles like Abdulrahman Oluwatumike Oriyomi. That’s some old cowardly Afrikaner NBA slave krap.

[crusty old prospector]

He owes me a few million dollars.

[vivenne]

It should be. As mentioned in the article look at the cost to the airlines, airport, government agencies to deal with. Plus it’s fraud. But, ya, felony level.

[Ditto]

but aside from that...a fake boarding pass is a felony?

Yes. As is fake checks, fake IDs, fake grocery coupons, etc. If your attempting to defraud someone, it’s a felony!

[SFmom]

It’s easy to get past both TSA and the boarding. TSA only scans or checks ID. They never look at a boarding pass. At the gate, if there is a QR code, they will scan that, but a paper pass without QR code can be created…at least one to get past the gate and onto a plane. Then he took a seat on the commode!

[LouAvul]

You kidding? joe biden was the most inept, retarded and corrupt president in history and deliberately brought tens of millions of the world's turd world trash here. He secreted them into swing states to corrupt our elections in perpetuity.

We'll never recover and our only solution is to declare the democrat party an outlawed religion and inter all of them in re-education camps where they have to listen to POTUS Trump's speeches and patriotic country music 24/7.

[Ann Archy]

Ban him from FLYING ANYWHERE EXCEPT BACK HOME!