{"id":374671,"date":"2026-07-15T22:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T22:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/374671\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T22:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T22:23:10","slug":"flight-from-midland-to-denver-makes-emergency-landing-in-lubbock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/374671\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight from Midland to Denver makes emergency landing in Lubbock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A United Airlines flight reportedly made an emergency landing\/diversion in Lubbock after a reported medical emergency.<\/p>\n<p>LUBBOCK, Texas \u2014 A flight bound from Midland to Denver had to divert\/make an emergency landing in Lubbock on Wednesday after a reported medical emergency.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Lubbock Fire Rescue, around 12:15 p.m., a United Airlines flight from Midland Air and Spaceport made an emergency landing\/diversion from the original destination of Denver because of a medical emergency while in the air.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officials say that due to standard operating procedures, Lubbock Fire Rescue&#8217;s Aircraft Rescue &amp; Fire Fighting (ARFF) units were along the runway to prepare for possible brake overheating.<\/p>\n<p>Additional Lubbock Fire Rescue &amp;UMC EMS were staged at the arrival gate to provide patient care.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lubbock Fire Officials report that there was no fire and the plane resumed track to its original destination.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A United Airlines flight reportedly made an emergency landing\/diversion in Lubbock after a reported medical emergency. LUBBOCK, Texas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-374671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}