NewsWorld newsPlanesA 16-year-old's fitness watch forced a flight with 190 passengers on board to turn around as police searched the aircraft - the FBI has launched an investigation into the incident15:07, 01 Jun 2026Updated 15:09, 01 Jun 2026A flight was forced to turn around after a 16-year-old's Bluetooth name for the Fitbit watch led to panic on the plane.‌The teenager named his activity and health tracking watch "Bomb" and the name popped up as available on tother people's Bluetooth devices. Passengers on a United Airlines flight from Newark, New Jersey, heading toward Mallorca, Spain, took off at around 6pm on Saturday but landed back at around 9.30pm that same evening.‌The flight was diverted due to a possible security threat as authorities were told to inspect a suspicious item on board. Flyers were repeatedly told by crew members to turn off all Bluetooth devices but two remained on.‌Emergency services eventually figured out the device with the name "Bomb" was a Fitbit which belonged to a teen on the flight, according to The New York Post. Air traffic control audio revealed security rushed to inspect the aircraft because someone named their Bluetooth device a "certain four-letter word".‌United Airlines said there were 190 passengers on the plane along with 12 crew members. All the people on board were forced to evacuate to allow port authority police to sweep the plane.Officers from the Transportation Security Administration and Customs and Border Protection then re-screened each passengers before they boarded the plane again. The plane later took off again and continued to Mallorca. The teenager, whose identity has not been shared, was not charged locally but the FBI has launched a probe into the incident, according to the NYP.United Airlines, on Sunday, said: "United flight 236 from Newark to Palma De Mallorca, Spain safely returned to Newark to address a potential security concern. The flight continued on to Palma De Mallorca with a new crew."Article continues belowThis comes after another United Airlines flight, flying from Chicago to Minneapolis, was forced to divert to Wisconsin due to "security concern with an unruly passenger".Police and the FBI responded to flight UA2005 after it landed at the Dane county regional airport late on Friday. Air traffic control audio, obtained by NBC News, revealed the passenger had been trying to "breach the cockpit".A crew member in the audio was heard saying: "I do not believe they ever cuffed him, but they were able to finally get control of him after multiple attempts to try to breach the cockpit. I believe at this point he is seated in a seat and flanked with law enforcement officers on either side."Choose Daily Mirror as a 'Preferred Source' on Google News for quick access to the news you value.‌Planes