{"id":63296,"date":"2025-11-24T20:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T20:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/63296\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T20:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T20:28:07","slug":"5-hospitalized-after-american-airlines-flight-diverted-to-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/63296\/","title":{"rendered":"5 hospitalized after American Airlines flight diverted to Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-1207206876-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">American Airlines aircraft.(Photo by Alex Tai\/SOPA Images\/LightRocket via Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; On Sunday, American Airlines flight 2118 was diverted to George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston due to an odor on board.<\/p>\n<p>   Five hospitalized after flight diverted to Houston <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">According to the Houston Fire Department, four crew members and one passenger were taken to the hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The flight landed safely and taxied to the gate on its own. It was declared fire-safe by the Houston Fire Department, according to American Airlines.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The flight was scheduled to operate from Orlando to Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">First responders met the aircraft at the gate.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The passengers were moved to a different aircraft and the flight continued to Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">It is unclear what the odor was, or what originated it.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Officials did not say how the crew members and passenger were injured. The Houston Fire Department says they have not received any update on their conditions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;We thank our team members for their professionalism and apologize to our customers for their experience,&#8221; said American Airlines in a statement to FOX Local.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article is from American Airlines and the Houston Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article American Airlines aircraft.(Photo by Alex Tai\/SOPA Images\/LightRocket via Getty Images) HOUSTON &#8211; On Sunday, American Airlines flight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,223,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-63296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-houston-headlines","10":"tag-houston-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63296","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=63296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}