{"id":343149,"date":"2026-09-10T20:06:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T20:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/343149\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T20:06:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T20:06:30","slug":"jfk-emergency-landing-forced-by-delta-cabin-pressure-issue-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/343149\/","title":{"rendered":"JFK emergency landing forced by Delta cabin pressure issue \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Delta flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport to Phoenix, Arizona, turned around for an emergency landing back in Queens Thursday because of a cabin pressurization issue, according to the airline.<\/p>\n<p>DL791, a Boeing 757-200 aircraft with 155 passengers and six crew members aboard, returned to JFK around 10:30 a.m. after flight staff declared an emergency to get priority handling by air traffic control. <\/p>\n<p>Officials say the aircraft taxied normally to its gate, where maintenance crews were set to evaluate it. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>Delta released a statement confirming the incident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The flight crew of Delta Flight 791 from New York-JFK to Phoenix followed standard procedures and returned to JFK following a cabin pressurization issue,&#8221; the airline said. &#8220;The flight landed safely, and we apologize to our customers for the delay in their travels.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The plane was bound for Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. Delta says it&#8217;s working with customers to get them to their final destinations. <\/p>\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration says it is investigating. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Delta flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport to Phoenix, Arizona, turned around for an emergency landing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3346,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-343149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-air-travel","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343149","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=343149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}