Several people were treated for ear pain after exiting an Allegiant plane that returned to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport because of cabin pressure issues Monday afternoon, according to Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office Fire Rescue and the airline.<\/p>\n
Paramedics took three people to the hospital for evaluation, and treated a total of 13, said Battalion Chief Michael Kane, a spokesman for BSO Fire Rescue.<\/p>\n
The Allegiant Air Boeing 737-8200 took off from Fort Lauderdale at 9:20 a.m. for Atlantic City with 187 people on board when the crew \u201creceived an indication related to cabin pressurizing during the climb,\u201d said Sonya Padgett, an airline spokesperson.<\/p>\n
The pilots leveled the plane and decided to return to the airport \u201cout of an abundance of caution,\u201d Padgett said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe aircraft landed normally and safely, and customers deplaned at the gate,\u201d Padgett said. \u201cNo emergency was declared by the crew or Air Traffic Control.\u201d<\/p>\n
Paramedics evaluated the passengers and some crew members, Padgett said, adding the airline had no reports of serious injuries.<\/p>\n
The flight was rescheduled and left Fort Lauderdale at 3:02 p.m., according to Allegiant\u2019s website.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe apologize to our customers for the inconvenience this disruption caused to their travel plan,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The airline will issue passengers $100 cash and a $150 voucher, she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several people were treated for ear pain after exiting an Allegiant plane that returned to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[32641,117791,249,251,1771,250,117793,117792],"class_list":["post-276048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-allegiant","tag-cabin-pressure","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-hollywood-international-airport","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-office-fire-rescue","tag-sonya-padgett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276048","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=276048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}