{"id":300131,"date":"2026-02-16T00:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T00:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/300131\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T00:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T00:42:10","slug":"flight-makes-emergency-landing-at-dublin-airport-due-to-medical-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/300131\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight makes emergency landing at Dublin airport due to medical issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The DL90 flight from Orlando was heading towards Amsterdam<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0_FlightradarDublin.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Flightradar24\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Flightradar24(Image: Flightradar24)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A transatlantic flight was forced to make an unscheduled emergency landing at Dublin Airport on Saturday morning due to a medical emergency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The Delta Air Lines <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishmirror.ie\/all-about\/travel\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">flight <\/a>DL90 departed from Orlando International Airport on Friday (February 13) at 7.36pm and was headed to Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">However after about 7 hours and 28 minutes of flying across the Atlantic, the crew made the decision to divert to the Irish capital. As reported by <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/airlive.net\/tracking\/2026\/02\/14\/delta-flight-dl90-to-amsterdam-diverted-to-dublin-this-morning\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">Air Live<\/a>, the aircraft touched down at <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishmirror.ie\/all-about\/dublin-airport\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">Dublin Airport<\/a> following a standard descent.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0_Screenshot-2026-02-15-at-180400a.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"The flight from Orlando to Amsterdam was forced to make an emergency landing at Dublin airport\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">The flight from Orlando to Amsterdam was forced to make an emergency landing at Dublin airport(Image: flightradar24.com)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">It was reported that there was a medical emergency onboard with a passenger that needed immediate medical attention after landing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">After a short stop on the ground at Dublin airport, the Airbus A330-900 departed Dublin at 9.34am and resumed it&#8217;s journey to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport where it landed at 12.08pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The DL90 flight from Orlando was heading towards Amsterdam Flightradar24(Image: Flightradar24) A transatlantic flight was forced to make&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,25311,11900,61,173,60,2738,2521],"class_list":["post-300131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-delta-air-lines","tag-dublin-airport","tag-ie","tag-inc","tag-ireland","tag-transport","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}