DUBLIN \u2014 An American Airlines transatlantic flight was forced to make an unscheduled landing in Ireland today after flight attendants suffered a medical emergency thousands of feet over the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n
Flight AA719<\/a>, operated by a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner (registration N840AN), departed Rome\u2019s Fiumicino Airport (FCO) at 12:40 CEST bound for Philadelphia International Airport (PHL).<\/p>\n Approximately four hours into the journey, while cruising at 39,000 feet over the North Atlantic, the flight crew contacted Air Traffic Control to report a medical issue on board requiring immediate attention as approx 6 several flight attendants of 9 were feeling sick according to a source to AIRLIVE. Recognizing the need for urgent ground assistance, the pilots initiated a diversion toward Dublin Airport (DUB)<\/a>, the nearest suitable diversion airfield.<\/p>\n Flight Details at a Glance:<\/p>\n Flight: American Airlines AA719Route: Rome (FCO) to Philadelphia (PHL) (Diverted to Dublin)Aircraft: Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner (Reg: N840AN)Reason: Onboard Medical EmergencyLanding: Runway 28L, Dublin Airport<\/p>\n Air traffic controllers vectored the wide-body jet toward Ireland, where medical responders were placed on standby. The aircraft touched down safely on Dublin\u2019s Runway 28L approximately six hours after its initial departure from Rome.<\/p>\n Emergency medical personnel met the aircraft upon arrival to treat and transport the flight attendants. It remains unclear at this time when Flight AA719 will resume its journey to Philadelphia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUBLIN \u2014 An American Airlines transatlantic flight was forced to make an unscheduled landing in Ireland today after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[27307,107739,107740,107741,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-252287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-aa","tag-aa719","tag-dub","tag-n840an","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}