{"id":342713,"date":"2026-07-16T21:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T21:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/342713\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T21:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T21:57:08","slug":"skywest-flight-from-the-bahamas-to-atlanta-diverted-to-jacksonville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/342713\/","title":{"rendered":"SkyWest flight from the Bahamas to Atlanta diverted to Jacksonville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A passenger plane from the Bahamas was diverted to Jacksonville, with emergency vehicles seen on the tarmac.<\/p>\n<p>A passenger plane headed to Atlanta was diverted to Jacksonville International Airport on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The SkyWest flight took off from the Bahamas when it instead flew up the Florida Peninsula and landed in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<p>According to FlightAware, Skywest Flight 3723 took off around 1:30 p.m. and landed in Jacksonville around 3:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Video showed emergency vehicles on the tarmac.<\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville Fire Department officials said a person on the plane had a non-life-threatening medical emergency, forcing the flight to land in Jacksonville.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the FAA said a crew member became ill. The FAA statement also said the flight was bound for Orlando, although it was actually bound for Atlanta.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More details were not immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A passenger plane from the Bahamas was diverted to Jacksonville, with emergency vehicles seen on the tarmac. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-342713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342713","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=342713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}