{"id":759723,"date":"2026-06-25T07:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T07:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/759723\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T07:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T07:15:12","slug":"air-canada-plane-diverts-to-boston-due-to-medical-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/759723\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Canada plane diverts to Boston due to medical emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Air Canada plane landed safely at Boston Logan International Airport after its captain experienced a medical emergency during the flight. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">An Air Canada flight en route to Halifax was forced to divert to Boston Logan International Airport on Wednesday after the pilot experienced a medical emergency. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a statement to CTV News, Massachusetts State Police confirmed that at approximately 1:40 p.m. ET, Air Canada flight AC7664, which departed from Newark, N.J., had to divert to Boston after a reported medical emergency. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Air Canada told CTV News in an emailed statement that the pilot was \u201cremoved from the flight deck, as per safety protocols.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe first officer took control of the aircraft and diverted the flight to Boston, where it landed safely,\u201d Air Canada\u2019s statement read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Massachusetts State Police told CTV News the pilot was transported to a local hospital. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Air Canada says 61 customers were aboard the aircraft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWork is underway to provide the affected customers with travel arrangements to complete their journeys as soon as possible,\u201d Air Canada said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With files from CTV News\u2019 Corin Thompson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Air Canada plane landed safely at Boston Logan International Airport after its captain experienced a medical emergency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[712,45,49,48],"class_list":["post-759723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-apple-news","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759723","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=759723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}