{"id":278159,"date":"2026-06-25T19:19:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T19:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/278159\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T19:19:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T19:19:28","slug":"air-canada-pilots-medical-emergency-forces-flight-to-divert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/278159\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Canada pilot&#8217;s medical emergency forces flight to divert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gettyimages-2277894143.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-653d32e2=\"\">An Air Canada aircraft taxis for departure on the runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario, on May 27, 2026. (Photo by Mike Campbell\/NurPhoto via Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">NEWARK, N.J. &#8211; A routine flight out of Newark took an unexpected detour after a sudden mid-flight emergency.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">An Air Canada flight that departed from Newark International Airport on Wednesday was forced to divert to Boston on its way to Halifax, Canada.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officials say the captain experienced a medical issue and was removed from the flight deck. The first officer then took control of the flight, landing it safely in Boston.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;Pilots are trained to fly aircraft and land safely without the assistance of a second pilot,&#8221; Air Canada said in a statement to FOX 5.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Air Canada says the captain was taken for medical treatment upon landing in Boston, but has yet to release further details about their identity, condition or medical emergency.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">There were 61 passengers onboard the flight at the time. No injuries have been reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from this article was sourced from Air Canada.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/nj\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Jersey<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article An Air Canada aircraft taxis for departure on the runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,12,2223,63,134,136,135,618],"class_list":["post-278159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nj","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}