JetBlue Flight 2839, an Airbus A320 registered N794JB, held offshore Aguadilla Airport (BQN/TJBQ) for 30 minutes last night while a disabled MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft, callsign SPARK21, was recovered from the runway, according to a report on X citing JetBlue and Flightradar24. The incident occurred at Aguadilla Rafael Hernández Airport in Puerto Rico, with audio from the airport's CTAF frequency (124.95 MHz) capturing communications during the recovery, as shared in the X post by @r4streando during the reporting window from 11:15 AM to 2:15 PM UTC on January 2, 2026. Images from Flightradar24 accompanied the report, tracking both the JetBlue aircraft (hex code AAC7AB) and the Reaper drone (hex code for Q9, SPARK21). No further details on the cause of the drone's disablement or additional impacts to flights were provided in the source.
