"I'm going to bomb this plane". Passengers got this text onboard the plane over the ocean. Real ATC

THIS VIDEO IS A RECONSTRUCTION OF THE FOLLOWING SITUATION IN FLIGHT:

28-SEP-2022. An American Airlines Airbus A321neo (A21N), registration N439AN, performing flight AAL297 / AA297 from Los Angeles International Airport, CA (USA) to Honolulu Daniel K. Inouye International Airport, HI (USA) during climb out of Los Angeles, about 100-110 miles west of LAX, declared threat level 3 on board and requested return to the airport of departure. The crew reported that multiple passengers had received an AirDrop with text: “I'm going to bomb this plane”.

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Timestamps:

00:00 Description of situation
00:17 Departure
00:22 American 297 requested return to LAX
00:45 The controller cleared aal297 back to Los Angeles
01:35 The pilot reported that bomb threat on board
02:12 The crew contacted SoCal Approach
04:41 The crew contacted the second Approach unit
06:53 American 297 contacted Tower
07:45 The airplane made a safe landing

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THE VALUE OF THIS VIDEO:
THE MAIN VALUE IS EDUCATION. This reconstruction will be useful for actual or future air traffic controllers and pilots, people who plan to connect life with aviation, who like aviation. With help of this video reconstruction you’ll learn how to use radiotelephony rules, Aviation English language and general English language (for people whose native language is not English) in situation in flight, which was shown. THE MAIN REASON I DO THIS IS TO HELP PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND EVERY EMERGENCY SITUATION, EVERY WORD AND EVERY MOVE OF AIRCRAFT.

SOURCES OF MATERIAL, LICENSES AND PERMISSIONS:
Source of communications – https://www.liveatc.net/ (I have a permission (Letter) for commercial use of radio communications from LiveATC.net).
Map, aerial pictures (License (ODbL) ©OpenStreetMap -https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyrig...) Permission for commercial use, royalty-free use.
Radar screen (In new versions of videos) – Made by author.
Text version of communication – Made by Author.
Video editing - Made by author.

HOW I DO VIDEOS:
1) I monitor media, airspace, looking for any non-standard, emergency and interesting situation.
2) I find communications of ATC unit for the period of time I need.
3) I take only phrases between air traffic controller and selected flight.
4) I find a flight path of selected aircraft.
5) I make an animation (early couple of videos don’t have animation) of flight path and aircraft, where the aircraft goes on his route.
6) When I edit video I put phrases of communications to specific points in video (in tandem with animation).
7) Together with my comments (voice and text) I edit and make a reconstruction of emergency, non-standard and interesting situation in flight.