{"id":445397,"date":"2026-08-27T19:38:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T19:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/445397\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T19:38:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T19:38:26","slug":"delta-flight-from-la-to-boston-diverted-after-pilot-falls-ill-nbc-7-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/445397\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta flight from LA to Boston diverted after pilot falls ill \u2013 NBC 7 San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Delta flight from Los Angeles to Boston was forced to divert to Detroit after one of the pilots became ill mid-flight. <\/p>\n<p>Flight 437 departed LAX at 10:45 a.m. Tuesday and was headed to Logan International Airport when it made the emergency landing at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport &#8220;following a crew illness,&#8221; Delta said in a statement to NBC News. The nature of the illness was not disclosed. <\/p>\n<p>The Boeing 757, with 147 passengers onboard, landed safely in Detroit, Delta said.<\/p>\n<p>In air traffic control audio capture by Live ATC, the flight&#8217;s captain can be heard saying he&#8217;s the ill crew member.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the captain. I&#8217;m the one that&#8217;s ill,&#8221; the captain told the tower. &#8220;I\u2019m gonna taxi the jet to the gate, and then I need to go to the hospital.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The pilot disembarked and Delta said the flight was re-crewed before continuing on to Boston. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Delta flight from Los Angeles to Boston was forced to divert to Detroit after one of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[11972,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-445397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-air-travel","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445397","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=445397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}