{"id":43434,"date":"2019-06-17T01:34:25","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T05:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=43434"},"modified":"2019-06-17T01:34:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T05:34:33","slug":"american-airlines-flight-2270-makes-an-emergency-landing-at-rsw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2019\/06\/american-airlines-flight-2270-makes-an-emergency-landing-at-rsw\/","title":{"rendered":"American Airlines flight 2270 makes an emergency landing at RSW"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/WBBH.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=378325342;hostDomain=www.nbc-2.com;playerWidth=640;playerHeight=360;isShowIcon=true;clipId=14844495;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=overlay'><\/script> <\/a>\n\n\n\n<p>An airplane made an emergency landing at Southwest Florida International Airport Sunday evening.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>American Airlines flight 2270 from Miami to Dallas made a diversion to RSW around 4:40 p.m. because of a mechanical issue, according to RSW spokesperson Victoria Moreland.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One hundred and ninety-two\u00a0passengers were unloaded from the plane and were directed to the ticket counter at RSW trying to book other flights, according to witnesses.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to passengers on the flight, they were told that mechanics were looking at the plane before boarding.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, they said the plane was good to go, so the flight took off.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plane was in the air for 45 minutes over Tampa, when it landed in Fort Myers after the pilot originally said it would be landing in Tampa.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to American Airlines, the plane will remain overnight at RSW, and the passengers will be put up in a hotel.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plane is scheduled to fly to Dallas Fort Worth tomorrow at 9 a.m., weather permitting.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An airplane made an emergency landing at Southwest Florida International Airport Sunday evening.&nbsp; American Airlines flight 2270 from Miami to Dallas made a diversion to RSW around 4:40 p.m. because&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":43435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}