SEATTLE \u2014 An Alaska Airlines flight heading from Santa Ana, California, to Seattle was diverted to Fresno Sunday night because of “a mechanical issue,” the airline said.<\/p>\n
Flight 671 took off from John Wayne Airport near Los Angeles at 9:08 p.m., according to flight trackin<\/a>g data<\/a>.<\/p>\n Soon after reaching cruising altitude, the flight rapidly descended from 40,000 feet to about 10,000 feet to divert to Fresno Yosemite International Airport.<\/p>\n “Flight 671 was diverted to Fresno (FAT) due to an indication of a mechanical issue,” Alaska Airlines said in a statement Sunday night. “The aircraft landed safely and there was no emergency on landing. We plan to resume the flight [Monday] with a different aircraft.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE \u2014 An Alaska Airlines flight heading from Santa Ana, California, to Seattle was diverted to Fresno Sunday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-456373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456373","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=456373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}