CNN, MS NOW, NYT turn blind eye on illegal immigrant accused of bomb threat, attempting to storm cockpit

The arrest of Rony Alexander Gomez-Alberto, a Honduran national who had been deported twice before, went unreported by several major news outlets. He was taken into custody by the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office after United Airlines Flight 2174 landed at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport following a midair disturbance on November 9, 2026.

Gomez-Alberto allegedly falsely claimed to have a bomb and attempted to enter the cockpit during the flight, creating a security scare at 30,000 feet. Despite the serious nature of the incident, CNN and MSNBC did not mention the story in any of their programs through Wednesday, according to Grabien transcripts.

Media Coverage Gap

Neither ABC nor NBC covered the arrest in their national morning and evening newscasts, transcripts reveal. ABC's "World News Tonight" did report on other aviation incidents, including a United flight from Tokyo that made an emergency landing due to an unruly passenger and a Frontier jet at O'Hare that began flooding with water.

The network also ran a report about an 8-year-old Haitian boy separated from his family by ICE agents in San Diego. The New York Times had not published a story about the cockpit incident as of Thursday morning, according to a search of the newspaper's website.

Who let him back in? How did he get on the plane? What failed? Instead, the elitist media are basically silent. When the liberal media wears the other team's jersey for an illegal immigrant would-be terrorist at 30,000 feet, it's as anti-American as it gets.

Immigration History

DHS confirmed that ICE lodged a detainer for Gomez-Alberto on November 10, 2026. According to immigration records, he was first apprehended by Border Patrol after illegally entering the U.S. near El Indio, Texas, in September 2011, and again near Columbus, New Mexico, in October 2014.

He was removed from the country following both encounters. In 2019, Border Patrol arrested him again after an attempted illegal entry near San Ysidro, California. ICE released Gomez-Alberto from custody in January 2020 after an immigration judge ordered his release pending removal proceedings.

Fox News also confirmed that Gomez-Alberto claimed he feared he would be killed if sent back to his home country, alleging on his asylum application that he was transgender, a detail first reported by The Daily Wire.