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

A Houston antheral is facing a felony complaint aft authorities accidental helium utilized a fraudulent boarding walk to committee a United Airlines formation astatine George Bush Intercontinental Airport earlier the craft was forced to instrumentality to the gate, according to tribunal documents reviewed by Fox News Digital.

Abdulrahman Oluwatumike Oriyomi, 25, has been charged with impairing oregon interrupting the cognition of a captious infrastructure installation successful transportation with the May 18 incident, according to a transgression ailment filed successful Harris County.

Prosecutors aboriginal sought a $25,000 bond, arguing that the alleged incidental delayed a formation carrying a afloat level of passengers for astir 3 hours and prompted responses from aggregate agencies, including the Houston Police Department, the FBI, Houston Airports and the Transportation Security Administration.

"The Defendant delayed a formation for 3 hours with a afloat plane," prosecutors wrote successful a question reviewed by Fox News Digital.

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Travelers enactment up astatine a TSA checkpoint astatine George Bush Intercontinental Airport successful Houston connected Thursday, March 26, 2026. (Lekan Oyekanmi/AP Photo)

According to the complaint, Oriyomi entered Bush Airport and passed done a TSA checkpoint earlier attempting to committee a formation bound for Los Angeles.

Investigators allege Oriyomi archetypal attempted to scan a boarding walk astatine 1 gross but was unsuccessful. He past walked done the airdrome earlier approaching different gross wherever United employees were checking passengers' boarding passes.

The ailment alleges Oriyomi waited until hose employees were distracted earlier proceeding down the jetway and boarding United Flight 469.

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A rider told investigators Oriyomi initially sat adjacent to her earlier moving astir the aircraft. The witnesser aboriginal realized the spot had already been assigned to different passenger, according to the complaint.

The craft had already begun taxiing distant from the gross erstwhile formation attendants were notified that idiosyncratic was wrong a restroom connected board.

Flight attendants yet made interaction with Oriyomi and determined helium did not person an assigned spot connected the flight. A formation attendant aboriginal checked the rider manifest and allegedly discovered nary authorized rider was listed nether the sanction Oriyomi had provided.

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The level returned to the gate, prompting a effect from aggregate instrumentality enforcement and information agencies.

Investigators aboriginal reviewed a boarding walk representation recovered from Oriyomi's telephone and determined it appeared fraudulent due to the fact that cardinal accusation and a QR codification were missing, the ailment states. A Bush Airport typical concluded the papers was fake, according to the filing.

Investigators determined Oriyomi could not person obtained a valid boarding walk without archetypal paying for his reservation, according to tribunal records reviewed by Fox News Digital.

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A United Airlines craft is seen successful flight. Court documents allege a Houston antheral boarded a United formation astatine George Bush Intercontinental Airport utilizing a fraudulent boarding pass. (iStock)

Prosecutors besides requested respective enslaved conditions, according to tribunal records reviewed by Fox News Digital, including surrendering immoderate passports oregon question documents, avoiding Bush Intercontinental Airport and different airports, refraining from possessing firearms and submitting to physics monitoring if ordered by the court.

It was not instantly wide whether each requested enslaved conditions were yet imposed.

Court records reviewed by Fox News Digital did not instantly place an lawyer representing Oriyomi.

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United Airlines, Houston Airports and the Transportation Security Administration did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's requests for comment.

The lawsuit is pending successful Harris County's 180th District Court.