{"id":423251,"date":"2026-10-09T12:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T12:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/423251\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T12:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T12:48:09","slug":"new-york-bound-avianca-flight-diverted-to-miami-after-turbulence-8-passengers-hospitalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/423251\/","title":{"rendered":"New York-bound Avianca flight diverted to Miami after turbulence; 8 passengers hospitalized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight passengers were rushed to the hospital after severe turbulence on the Avianca flight.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WABC logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/origin-wabc.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Friday, October 9, 2026 12:04PM<\/p>\n<p>Follow 6abc on Google<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">NEW YORK &#8212; An Avianca Airlines flight bound for New York&#8217;s John F. Kennedy International Airport was diverted to Miami after several passengers were injured during turbulence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The flight was traveling from Medell\u00edn, Colombia, to New York when it encountered turbulence and was forced to divert to Miami.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Eight passengers were transported to hospitals with injuries. Their conditions were not immediately known Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It was unclear exactly when the turbulence occurred during the flight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">ABC News reported there was weather in the area at the time, but officials had not said whether weather was the cause of the turbulence.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WABC-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eight passengers were rushed to the hospital after severe turbulence on the Avianca flight. Friday, October 9, 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[166883,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-423251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-166883","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423251","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=423251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}