4 Alaska Airways flight attendants have been despatched to the hospital after reporting feeling ailing, inflicting a flight diversion.
Alaska Airways Flight 810 was headed from Lihue (Kauai), Hawaii, to Seattle on Thursday evening. As an alternative, it landed in Honolulu about an hour and a half after takeoff, based on flight monitoring web site FlightAware.
Crews reported changing into sick after an unidentifiable odor was detected within the cabin, based on USA TODAY.
Whereas the airline has not but responded to a FOX Enterprise inquiry, it informed FOX 13 Seattle that 119 company and 6 crew members had been on the flight.
ALASKA AIRLINES BOEING FLIGHT RETURNS TO AIRPORT FOLLOWING ENGINE ISSUE
Ticker | Safety | Final | Change | Change % |
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BA | THE BOEING CO. | 156.92 | -5.84 | -3.59% |
ALK | ALASKA AIR GROUP INC. | 41.63 | +1.70 | +4.24% |
Not one of the pilots or company on board required medical consideration, based on FOX 13. All company have been offered new lodging by the airline on different flights to Seattle.
The airplane, a Boeing 737-800 based on FlightAware, was flown with out passengers again to Seattle for additional inspection.
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It isn’t identified what the odor was that was detected, nor what the flight attendants’ circumstances have been after being evaluated at a hospital.
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Alaska Airways is within the means of making an attempt to merge with Hawaiian Airways. The corporate made headlines earlier this 12 months when a Boeing 737-9 MAX door plug blowout occurred throughout one among their flights in January.
Earlier this summer time, Boeing was rebuked by the NTSB for sharing particulars concerning the investigation into the matter throughout a media briefing by Elizabeth Lund, senior vp of high quality for Boeing business airplanes. She can also be chair of the Enterprise High quality Operations Council.