{"id":423549,"date":"2026-10-09T18:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T18:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/423549\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T18:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T18:54:12","slug":"8-hospitalized-after-turbulence-forces-nyc-bound-flight-to-land-in-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/423549\/","title":{"rendered":"8 hospitalized after turbulence forces NYC-bound flight to land in Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least nine passengers and crew were hospitalized early Friday after severe turbulence hit a New York-bound plane, forcing it to make an emergency landing after dropping 25,000 feet.<\/p>\n<p>An Avianca plane left Medellin, Colombia, at 10:40 p.m. local time Thursday\u00a0heading for JFK, but it was forced to divert and land in Miami just three hours into the flight.<\/p>\n<p>The Airbus A320 climbed to around 35,000 feet as it flew over Jamaica and Cuba, heading north, before making a sharp descent about 2 \u00bd hours into the flight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.81560284;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"41250522\" width=\"1024\" height=\"564\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/8-passengers-hospitalized-abc7-https-144358202.jpg\" alt=\"An ambulance at a hospital with medical personnel attending to a passenger on a stretcher.\" class=\"wp-image-41250522\"\/>At least eight people were hospitalized after a NYC-bound flight from Colombia was forced to divert and make an emergency landing in Miami. ABC Miami<\/p>\n<p>The plane descended 25,000 feet in a matter of minutes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flightradar24.com\/data\/flights\/av42#420a8378\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">according to FlightRadar24<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flightradar24.com\/data\/flights\/av42#420a8378\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">data<\/a>, before it then landed in Miami.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we arrived, when we landed, we saw that very close to where we were going to disembark, there were more than five or six ambulances,\u201d Maria Paula Jimenez, a passenger, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/severe-turbulence-miami-international-airport-flight-october-9-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">told CBS Miami.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeven of them with their lights on as if they were waiting for something. When we arrived, well, you know, it wasn\u2019t normal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"41250868\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1-18-2025-inglewood-ca-144358370.jpg\" alt=\"An Avianca Airlines Airbus A320Neo airplane departs against a clear sky.\" class=\"wp-image-41250868\"\/>The Avianca flight dropped 25,000 feet and hit severe turbulence. robin \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMultiple patients\u201d were injured, Miami-Dade Fire and Rescue officials said after the plane touched down around 3:30 a.m \u2014 with at least one of the injured serious enough to be rushed to a trauma center.<\/p>\n<p>The airline later said that nine people \u2014 including three crew members \u2014 were taken to a medical facility for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Uninjured passengers were flown to New York City Friday morning, according to\u00a0Avianca.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe safety of our customers and employees is, and will remain, the foundation of our operations,\u201d the airline said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear how many passengers and crew were on board the flight.<\/p>\n<p>Video, seen by NBC6, appears to show passengers with ice packs on their heads while being instructed to stay seated.<\/p>\n<p>With Post wires<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least nine passengers and crew were hospitalized early Friday after severe turbulence hit a New York-bound plane,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[21090,81093,75039,123,125,124,4278],"class_list":["post-423549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-airplanes","tag-dramatic-flights","tag-jfk-airport","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423549","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=423549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}