Alameda County Sheriff’s Office

A Maryland man who police say threatened to blow up a plane as it taxied to a runway at Oakland International Airport just before the Thanksgiving holiday was arrested on suspicion of making criminal threats.

Arpan Shah, 32, told passengers Tuesday afternoon on the Baltimore-bound Southwest Airlines plane that he was going to blow up the aircraft while it was in the sky. The captain of Flight 5135 was immediately alerted to the threat and returned the aircraft to the gate, officials said.