{"id":798956,"date":"2026-07-13T11:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T11:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/798956\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T11:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T11:31:13","slug":"worlds-largest-passenger-plane-makes-emergency-landing-in-gander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/798956\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s Largest Passenger Plane Makes Emergency Landing in Gander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/etihad-airways-a380-gander-landing.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"World's Largest Passenger Plane Makes Emergency Landing in Gander\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Allied Aviation\/Facebook)<\/p>\n<p>It was an unusual sight in Gander on Friday as an Etihad Airways Airbus A380 made an unexpected landing due to a medical emergency.<\/p>\n<p>The plane, en route to Abu Dhabi from Toronto, was just about four hours into its transatlantic flight when it had to turn around and land at Gander International Airport; the only airport large enough on the east coast of Canada to support a jet airliner of that magnitude. <\/p>\n<p>Emergency medical staff met the plane on the runway to transport the patient to hospital. The plane refueled, and after nearly two hours, took off for its final destination. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (Allied Aviation\/Facebook) It was an unusual sight in Gander on Friday as an Etihad Airways Airbus A380&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,269876,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-798956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798956","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=798956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}