My gosh, love can be rough sometimes, eh? Every so often we hear a story of someone calling in a bomb threat on a flight because they’re running late, or because they don’t want someone to take a flight. However, it’s not usually a veteran flight attendant making such a call…
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Aerolineas Argentinas gets bomb threat for Miami-bound flight
A 47-year-old Aerolineas Argentinas flight attendant named Daniela Carbone is accused of calling in a bomb threat on a US-bound flight because her ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend were both working the flight (as flight attendants), and she couldn’t bear the thought of them being together.
This incident happened on May 21, 2023, and involves Aerolineas Argentinas flight AR1304, scheduled to operate from Buenos Aires (EZE) to Miami (MIA). The flight was operated by an Airbus A330 with the registration code LV-FVH, and there were 270 passengers plus 12 crew members onboard.
Carbone had been a flight attendant at Argentina’s national airline for 25 years, and she and her boyfriend of five years had recently broken up. Carbone was made aware that her ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend were both working this flight, so she’s accused of devising a plan to stop this.
She reportedly used her daughter’s cell phone to call in the bomb threat using voice distortion software. She reportedly directly called the captain’s phone number, stating the following:
“Tell the captain that we planted three bombs in Miami. Stop f*** with politics and check the plane because they are going to fly into a thousand pieces.”
The aircraft ended up being searched extensively, and not surprisingly, nothing was found. While the flight was initially supposed to depart at 7:35AM, it only ended up departing at 4:52PM, so it was delayed by over nine hours. Ouch.
How the flight attendant was caught
Carbone ended up being arrested on May 28, 2023, a week after the flight. Authorities had apparently been tipped off that it was her, and two iPhones ended up being seized at their home. They found searches done on the devices about “how to investigate audio,” “can you analyze an audio to find out whose voice it is,” “activate voice recognition,” and “Aerolineas Argentinas.”
Carbone was arrested by airport police, and charged with aggravated coercion, public intimidation, and hindering a public service. She has been suspended without pay, and faces six years in prison if convicted.
Bottom line
A veteran Aerolinas Argentinas flight attendant called in a bomb threat in an attempt to prevent her ex-boyfriend from taking a trip to Miami with his new girlfriend. My gosh, breaking up can be hard to do, and I suppose it can be hard to see your ex with someone else.
But that’s no excuse for acting this way, especially as a flight attendant, when you’re fully aware of the impact this will have on operations. It’s sad that her not being over her ex will now ruin her life in this way.
What do you make of this bomb threat situation?
that's why Tom Jones prophetically sang the song “sex bomb”
She obviously has mental concerns that should be addressed before prison time. Look at the evidence and put her in a mental institution.. Thalia Retired DL
That's a shame.
Disregarding the situation, how does this affect my points and miles or travel strategy?
Fun fact: The Aerolíneas Argentinas A330 in which this incident occurred is the one painted in the Argentina national team special livery for the FIFA World Cup.
I'd be willing to go to prison to save my wife or family. But for an ex? It's not even ex-husband, but an ex-boyfriend. WTH?
Woman is obviously clueless -- shoulda sent a fax to the plane
What an explosive relationship that must have been.
Early ‘00 kids would have said that couple was dabomb.com.
So this flight attendant is single now eh?!? Huum sounds like a good catch..
shouldn’t you blur the faces of the other FAs?
What about the collateral damage here! The 282 passengers and crew who suffered, and, in many cases, had to spend real money on meals, hotels, and transportation. She should be forced to pay retribution to those passengers. The guy was correct in leaving her, clearly she is very sick.
I've never understood any of these hoax bomb threat paradox.
If you really planted a bomb why would you make a threat and want people to find it.
If you want people to find it, why would you need an actual bomb.
Ransom? Political demands? Prisoner release? Many possibilities Eskimo, many
Ransom? Political demands? Prisoner release?
Really? who would have thought, I guess amateurs think like you.
Any 'hoax' ever result in demands met?
A real threat would be to make sure no one finds it before actually detonating it?
Disregarding how you shouldn't call in a bomb threat and all, what was she expecting to come from this? That the flight would get delayed and then... his ex is just going to say to his new flame "Hey baby our flight's delayed, I don't think our relationship is going to work, lets break up"?
I'm picturing her tapping those searches into her phone with a lacquered talon, smiling at her cunning plan to teach those two a lesson! Unfortunately it seems she didn't pause to consider the full range of outcomes.
A 47 year old woman with 25 years of experience behaving like a teenager. She did not think of the consequences her actions will have. She just ruined her life trying to ruin someone else life.
I wouldn't even say she ruined that guy's (or fwiw his current partner's) life. She just inconvenienced them
Tiger is saying she ruined her own life; she lost her job and may go to jail for this.
Chose to throw away her career, and likely her freedom, over someone who didn't even love her (anymore, if ever).
Dang.
But come on guys, she does have a point by doing this. trust me, I've had MUCH worse things than bomb threats done to me by all the girls I got caught cheating with.
Yeah ladies, step right up... we've got a real winner right here.
Someone gonna lorena Bobbitt you. Lol
25 years of "experience"??? You wouldn't think that.
Maybe she wanted an early retirement, which she got. Albeit I wouldn't like that much to spend my first 6 years of retirement behind bars.