{"id":27620,"date":"2025-10-31T06:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T06:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/27620\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T06:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T06:21:12","slug":"jetblue-passengers-hospitalized-after-emergency-landing-in-florida-sun-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/27620\/","title":{"rendered":"JetBlue passengers hospitalized after emergency landing in Florida \u2013 Sun Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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>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>The Airbus A320 was diverted to Tampa International Airport around 2 p.m, according to the FAA. <\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear how many were hurt or how severe their injuries were. Air traffic audio from <a href=\"http:\/\/liveatc.net\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LiveATC.net<\/a> captured a radio call reporting the injuries: \u201cWe\u2019ve got at least three people injured. It seems like maybe a laceration in the head.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Medical officials evaluated the passengers and crewmembers at the airport before some were taken to hospitals, according to JetBlue.<\/p>\n<p>\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>___<\/p>\n<p>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","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":27265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,114,115,1798],"class_list":{"0":"post-27620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-headlines","10":"tag-florida-news","11":"tag-latest-headlines","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-transportation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27620","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=27620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}