{"id":112962,"date":"2025-09-01T23:54:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T23:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/112962\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T23:54:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T23:54:06","slug":"air-canada-flight-to-toronto-forced-to-return-to-denver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/112962\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Canada flight to Toronto forced to return to Denver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Passengers heading to Toronto on an Air Canada flight from Denver were forced to turn back this weekend after a possible electrical fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a statement, Air Canada said that on Aug. 31, Flight 1038 \u201creturned to Denver shortly after takeoff due to a reported acrid smell in a galley area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The airline said the aircraft, an Airbus A220, landed safely, \u201cand the 117 passengers and 5 crew evacuated the aircraft using emergency slides as a precaution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">One person suffered minor injuries during the evacuation, Air Canada said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it is investigating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cAir Canada Flight 1038 returned to and landed safely at Denver International Airport around 8:15 a.m. local time on Sunday, Aug. 31, after the crew reported a possible electrical fire,\u201d the FAA said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Passengers were returned to the terminal, and Air Canada said it is working to make alternative travel arrangements as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Passengers heading to Toronto on an Air Canada flight from Denver were forced to turn back this weekend&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-112962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}