{"id":390878,"date":"2026-07-08T17:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T17:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/390878\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T17:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T17:59:08","slug":"medical-emergency-forces-honolulu-to-san-diego-southwest-flight-to-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/390878\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical emergency forces Honolulu-to-San Diego Southwest flight to return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO (KGTV) &#8212; A Southwest Airlines flight from Honolulu to San Diego returned to Hawaii late Tuesday after a medical emergency on board, airline officials said.<\/p>\n<p>ABC 10News learned Flight 512 departed Honolulu around 9 p.m. Hawaii time and was scheduled to arrive at San Diego International Airport just before 6 a.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>A passenger experienced an undisclosed medical issue during the flight, prompting the crew to declare an emergency.<\/p>\n<p>Southwest said the plane returned to Honolulu due to an FAA-designated point that determines whether flights from Hawaii should turn back or continue to the mainland.<\/p>\n<p>The flight was rescheduled to depart Honolulu at 9:25 p.m. Wednesday, with arrival in San Diego expected at 5:50 a.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (KGTV) &#8212; A Southwest Airlines flight from Honolulu to San Diego returned to Hawaii late Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[157351,74,76,75,22374,157352,157353],"class_list":["post-390878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-honolulu-to-san-diego-flight-southwest","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-southwest-airlines","tag-southwest-flight-to-san-diego","tag-southwest-medical-emergency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}