{"id":423159,"date":"2026-10-09T10:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T10:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/423159\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T10:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T10:46:07","slug":"8-hospitalized-after-severe-turbulence-forces-new-york-city-bound-flight-to-divert-to-mia-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/423159\/","title":{"rendered":"8 hospitalized after severe turbulence forces New York City bound flight to divert to MIA, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight people were rushed to a Miami hospital early Friday morning after a flight to New York City was forced to divert to Miami International Airport due to severe turbulence, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>According to officials at Miami International Airport, Avianca Flight 042 was headed from Medell\u00edn, Colombia, to New York City&#8217;s John F. Kennedy International Airport when the severe turbulence was reported.<\/p>\n<p>Miami-Dade Fire Rescue told CBS News Miami that &#8220;multiple patients&#8221; were injured, and the flight landed safely at MIA around 3:30 a.m. Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Eight of the injured passengers were brought to the hospital after the plane landed, MDFR continued.<\/p>\n<p>The extent of the injuries is unknown.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Miami has reached out for more information and will update this story as soon as new details are received.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eight people were rushed to a Miami hospital early Friday morning after a flight to New York City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,1063,124,807],"class_list":["post-423159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-international-airport","tag-miami-news","tag-south-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423159","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=423159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}