Dubai-NY Flight Ends With Passengers, Crew Taken to Hospital; Jet Quarantined

Sept. 6, 2018
Health and safety officials are investigating an illness that struck people on an Emirates Airline flight from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport on Wednesday morning.

Health and safety officials are investigating an illness that struck people on an Emirates Airline flight from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport on Wednesday morning.

Seven crew members and three passengers were taken to the hospital, Emirates Airline said. It added that Wednesday's return flight from New York to Dubai would leave three hours late.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2018/09/05/644826743/emirates-airline-says-about-10-passengers-fell-ill-on-flight-to-new-york