{"id":27306,"date":"2025-10-31T00:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T00:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/27306\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T00:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T00:26:07","slug":"jetblue-passengers-hospitalized-after-emergency-landing-in-florida-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/27306\/","title":{"rendered":"JetBlue passengers hospitalized after emergency landing in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 JetBlue passengers were taken to a hospital after a sudden altitude drop on a flight from Mexico forced an emergency landing in Florida on Thursday, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The flight from Cancun was traveling to Newark, New Jersey, when the altitude dropped. The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement that it is investigating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Airbus A320 was diverted to Tampa International Airport around 2 p.m, according to the FAA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The airline did not immediately respond to questions about the number of people injured and the severity of their injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Air traffic audio from <a href=\"http:\/\/liveatc.net\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LiveATC.net<\/a> captured a radio call that said, \u201cWe\u2019ve got at least three people injured. It seems like maybe a laceration in the head.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The plane has 162 seats, according to JetBlue\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Medical officials evaluated the passengers and crewmembers at the airport before some were taken to hospitals, according to JetBlue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cOur team has taken the aircraft out of service for inspection, and we will conduct a full investigation to determine the cause,\u201d according to a JetBlue statement. \u201cThe safety of our customers and crewmembers is always our first priority, and we will work to support those involved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This story has been corrected to say the aircraft was an Airbus A320, not an Airbus 320 as stated by the Federal Aviation Administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 JetBlue passengers were taken to a hospital after a sudden altitude drop on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20372,20320,20333,20334,28,30,29,3014,4392,20339,20373],"class_list":{"0":"post-27306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-airline","9":"tag-altitude-drop","10":"tag-emergency-landing","11":"tag-flight","12":"tag-florida","13":"tag-florida-headlines","14":"tag-florida-news","15":"tag-jetblue","16":"tag-mexico","17":"tag-new-jersey","18":"tag-passengers-hospitalized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}