{"id":291148,"date":"2026-05-31T21:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T21:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/291148\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T21:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T21:21:08","slug":"flight-returns-to-gate-at-orlando-airport-after-reported-odor-3-taken-to-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/291148\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight returns to gate at Orlando airport after reported odor; 3 taken to hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airport officials said the flight returned to the gate before takeoff; seven passengers were evaluated and three were transported.<\/p>\n<p>MCO on Friday (WKMG-TV)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">ORLANDO, Fla \u2013 A Frontier Airlines flight departing Orlando International Airport returned to the gate before takeoff after the crew reported an odor onboard, airport officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The incident happened about 4:20 p.m. Saturday, according to Rod Johnson, assistant vice president of public affairs for the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority. Johnson said seven passengers were evaluated and three were transported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">News 6 has reached out to Frontier Airlines for comment but had not received a response as of Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News Alerts<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kiwhtN\">Get breaking news alerts delivered to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 nALdY copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Airport officials said the flight returned to the gate before takeoff; seven passengers were evaluated and three were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[123068,6731,6205,139,68150,141,3847,140,9313],"class_list":["post-291148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-aircraft-odor-incident","tag-airport","tag-mco","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-airport-news","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-international-airport","tag-orlando-news","tag-travel-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291148","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=291148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}