{"id":128443,"date":"2025-09-08T09:03:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T09:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/128443\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T09:03:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T09:03:06","slug":"westjet-flight-from-toronto-experiences-hard-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/128443\/","title":{"rendered":"WestJet flight from Toronto experiences hard landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A WestJet flight from Toronto experienced a hard landing as it arrived at Princess Juliana International Airport in Sint Maarten on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Online footage from a plane spotter who witnessed the incident, appears to show the Boeing 737 aircraft making a harder than usual landing before skidding down the runway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmergency services responded immediately, deploying foam as a precaution,\u201d the airline wrote in a statement. \u201cThe aircraft\u2019s slides were activated, and all guests and crew safely evacuated and were transported to the terminal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll guests are accounted for and there are no reported injuries,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>The airline says it is awaiting confirmation on the exact nature of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWestJet is fully cooperating with local authorities and will provide additional updates as more information is available,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>The flight departed Toronto at 8:42 a.m. and arrived in Saint Martin at 1:29 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A WestJet flight from Toronto experienced a hard landing as it arrived at Princess Juliana International Airport in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-128443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128443","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=128443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}