\ud83d\udea8A United flight from Newark had a medical issue involving a passenger in the bathroom.\ud83d\udea8A 62-year-old woman reportedly spent about 90 minutes in the lavatory.\ud83d\udea8 The flight landed safely and she was taken off for medical attention.<\/p>\n
A United flight from Newark was met by medical personnel after a woman spent about 90 minutes in the bathroom during the flight.<\/p>\n
The website acarsdrama.com<\/a>, which monitors the unencrypted short text-like messages sent between ground stations and aircraft, picked up several messages about United flight 486 between Newark and Orlando on Thursday. They indicated a passenger had spent an unusually long time in one of the bathrooms on the Boeing 737 MAX 8.<\/p>\n \u201cCould we get [runway 17L]? We’ve got a passenger in the bathroom; it’s kind of an emergency,\u201d one of the pilots said, according to liveATC.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n Passenger reportedly sick for 90 minutes<\/p>\n Subsequent ACARS messages said the 62-year-old woman had been throwing up for 90 minutes. United said the flight landed safely and the woman was taken off the plane for medical attention.<\/p>\n United Airlines flight 486 left Newark just before 9 a.m. Thursday morning and arrived in Orlando around 11:30 a.m., according to FlightAware.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n The plane was used for two more flights from Orlando to Cleveland and then to Denver later in the day, according to FlightAware.com.<\/p>\n Report a correction<\/a> \ud83d\udc48 | \ud83d\udc49 Contact our newsroom<\/a><\/p>\n Biggest layoffs in New Jersey this year <\/p>\n New Jersey started 2026 with more than 4,700 notable layoffs announced, revealed by employers in the first three months. By late September, the total was above 13,000. Here’s a look at the largest announcements.<\/p>\n Gallery Credit: Erin Vogt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udea8A United flight from Newark had a medical issue involving a passenger in the bathroom.\ud83d\udea8A 62-year-old woman reportedly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[14472,9,24,63,134,136,135,17805],"class_list":["post-363378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-jersey-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-ultimate-new-jersey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363378","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=363378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}