{"id":27722,"date":"2025-10-31T09:05:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T09:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/27722\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T09:05:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T09:05:26","slug":"15-to-20-people-taken-to-hospital-after-jetblue-flight-diverts-to-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/27722\/","title":{"rendered":"15 to 20 people taken to hospital after JetBlue flight diverts to Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 According to JetBlue, a flight from Cancun to Newark made an emergency landing in Tampa on Thursday afternoon after experiencing a sudden drop in altitude, prompting a medical response for passengers and crew.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH: 15 to 20 people taken to hospital after JetBlue flight from Cancun diverts to Tampa from altitude drop<\/p>\n<p>15 to 20 people taken to hospital after JetBlue flight from Cancun diverts to Tampa from altitude drop<\/p>\n<p>JetBlue said Flight 1230 diverted to Tampa International Airport (TPA) after the incident occurred, and was met by medical personnel who evaluated customers and crew members. <\/p>\n<p>Tampa Fire Rescue said approximately 15 to 20 passengers were evaluated and taken to local hospitals.  All injuries are non-life-threatening, officials say.<\/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 JetBlue said in a 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>The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said the Airbus 320 diverted around 2 p.m. local time after the crew reported a flight control issue. The aircraft had departed Cancun International Airport and was bound for Newark Liberty International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Trending_Video_TampaBay28.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay locals stranded as Hurricane Melissa ravages Jamaica<\/p>\n<p>Polk County woman on honeymoon and Tampa restaurant owner among those unable to evacuate as catastrophic hurricane makes landfall with 185 mph winds.<\/p>\n<p>Locals stranded as Hurricane Melissa slams Jamaica<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 According to JetBlue, a flight from Cancun to Newark made an emergency landing in Tampa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[205,20338,20334,20651,276,20652,135,3670,137,136,208],"class_list":["post-27722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-abc-action-news","tag-cancun","tag-flight","tag-flight-diverted","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-jetblue-flight","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27722","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=27722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}