Networks REFUSE to Tell Viewers Attempted United Airlines Hijacker Is an ILLEGAL ALIEN

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On Tuesday, shocking news broke about a Monday night United Airlines flight from Newark, New Jersey, to New Orleans, Louisiana, in which a twice-deported illegal immigrant from Honduras — who claimed to be transgender — attempted to hijack the plane.

Normally, the “Big Three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC obsessively cover every clipping of plane tails, near-collisions on the tarmac, or unruly passengers. But when it came to this story, they had no interest in telling their viewers about it.

ABC’s World News Tonight came the closest on Tuesday with a 70-second story, but said nothing about the suspect’s origins or criminal record. Never one to completely skip airline headlines, anchor David Muir even teased three times in less than three minutes about “a possible hijacking alert” of a man who “tried to storm the cockpit.”

Muir covered it second on the broadcast, only to the failed House impeachment of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

“Also breaking tonight, we have just learned about a United Airlines flight out of Newark Airport that sent out a potential hijacking alert. The flight was on its way to New Orleans. A passenger saying he had a bomb. Reports he tried to storm the cockpit,” Muir later said in tossing to correspondent Ike Ejiochi.

Ejiochi flunked the who/what/where/when/why/how test of journalism by leaving out the suspect’s name and information in the front half of his story:

Tonight, a frightening midair scare after the pilots of a United flight out of Newark sent out an urgent alert for a possible hijacking. Authorities say that plane with 52 passengers and crew on board was headed to New Orleans late last night when suddenly, in the middle of the flight, officials say a passenger got up and said he had a bomb in his backpack. The pilots sending out a code to air traffic control, signaling a possible hijacking or security incident on board. That suspect taken to the back of the plane before it landed safely in New Orleans.

In between sound bites from presumably one of the pilots and law enforcement on the ground, Ejiochi narrated it: “Police meeting that plane in a remote area of the airport. Passengers taken off and the suspect detained.”

After pointing out “no bomb was found,” Ejiochi shared the suspect’s name in the final sentence: “[A]uthorities now identifying the suspect as Roni Gomez Alberto, and he's now facing multiple charges.”

The story quickly lost interest given the left’s penchant for illegal immigration, as it was omitted from Wednesday’s Good Morning America. The superficial newscast instead found time for an “exclusive” interview with the couple who climbed the Empire State Building on July 1.

Wednesday’s World News Tonight had a new story on a flight in danger, but it wasn't about the United Airlines flight. This time, it was breathlessly hyping two issues at Chicago’s O’Hare: An emergency landing for a Frontier Airlines flight with a plumbing issue and an unruly passenger on a flight coming from Tokyo.

CBS Mornings and the CBS Evening News were nowhere to be found, but their little-watched overnight program CBS News Mornings had it on Wednesday.

Host Michael George’s 23-second news brief didn’t wait until the end to name-drop Gomez-Albert. But where he loses credit was vague allusions to the suspect as a “Honduran national” whom “Homeland Security says” had “been deported twice before:

We’re back with a hijacking scare aboard a United Airlines flight. Authorities say Rony Gomez-Alberto, claimed to have a bomb and tried to enter the cockpit during Monday night’s flight from Newark to New Orleans. Crew members say the Honduran national had been acting irrationally. The plane landed safely and no bomb was found. Homeland Security says he’s been deported twice before.

Wednesday’s CBS Evening News didn't cover the attempted hijacking by this illegal alien, but they did have the two Chicago stories about the Frontier flight and the unruly passenger from Tokyo:

NBC’s two leading shows Today and Nightly News couldn’t have been bothered to bring it up, with the same being true for its overnight show.

In contrast to these networks, this latest (alleged) illegal immigrant crime was covered extensively over the past two days by the Fox News Channel, the Fox Business Network, Newsmax, Newsmax2, and NewsNation.