A Frontier Airlines flight as well as the entire east wing of Terminal 2 at Southern California’s Ontario International Airport was evacuated on Sunday night prior to departure after a passenger’s FaceTime conversation with a friend was mistaken for a bomb threat by another passenger, the Ontario Police Department said. The passenger having the chat about the military first-person shooter’s multiplayer component was detained and released before all passengers were able to reboard the plane and the flight commenced without further incident.
“Sometime before 10 p.m., the Ontario Police Department said a passenger aboard a Frontier Airlines flight waiting to depart heard someone say the words ‘bomb’ and ‘explosion’ and reported what they heard to the crew,” CBS News reported. “While detained, the individual explained he was on FaceTime with a friend while playing an online game of Call of Duty.” After a check of the plane and the cabin turned up no explosives or weapons – since this ended up just being a misunderstanding – the passenger was released without charges and the plane did eventually take off with him and everyone else on board.
The passenger and his friend were most likely discussing the recently released Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, which we thought was good this year, and perhaps its DMZ mode, which we found to be great. Maybe they were talking about the really bad input lag on the Switch 2 version, or perhaps the tonally jarring Halloween content, or maybe it wasn’t about Modern Warfare 4 at all and they were FaceTiming about the new weather system being added to Call of Duty: Warzone.