{"id":102575,"date":"2026-06-25T01:53:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T01:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/102575\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T01:53:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T01:53:34","slug":"air-canada-flight-diverts-to-boston-after-captains-medical-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/102575\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Canada flight diverts to Boston after captain’s medical emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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An Air Canada flight was forced to make an unexpected diversion to Boston’s Logan International Airport on Wednesday after the captain suffered a midair medical emergency<\/a>, according to the airline.<\/p>\n

Flight AC7664, operated by regional partner PAL Airlines, was en route from Newark, New Jersey<\/a>, to Halifax, Nova Scotia, with 61 passengers on board the De Havilland Q400 turboprop when the incident occurred.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Air Canada told Fox News the captain experienced a medical issue and had to be removed from the flight deck in accordance with safety protocols.<\/p>\n

PASSENGERS BAFFLED AND CONFUSED AFTER SCREAMS BURST FROM BENEATH TAXIING AIR CANADA PLANE<\/a><\/p>\n

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FILE – An Air Canada plane diverted to Boston on Wednesday after the captain experienced a medical issue, according to officials. (Mike Campbell\/NurPhoto via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The first officer was forced to take sole control of the aircraft, successfully diverting the plane and safely touching down in Boston at 1:37 p.m. local time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Airline officials<\/a> said their pilots are fully trained to fly and land safely without the assistance of a second pilot.<\/p>\n

FAA INVESTIGATES AFTER INCOMING PLANE EXECUTES GO-AROUND DUE TO AIRCRAFT LEAVING FROM INTERSECTING RUNWAY<\/a><\/p>\n

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FILE – Officials said the plane landed safetly at Boston Logan International Airport in Winthrop, Mass., following the incident. (Pat Greenhouse\/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) confirmed the aircraft landed without incident, and Massport Fire Rescue and Boston EMS “responded to the crew as necessary.”<\/p>\n

The captain, whose condition was not immediately released, was taken for medical treatment<\/a> in Boston, according to Air Canada.<\/p>\n

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FILE – The incident comes months after an Air Canada jet and a Port Authority fire truck collided on the runway at LaGuardia Airport in New York in March. (Seth Wenig\/AP Photo)<\/p>\n

It is unclear what the medical issue entailed.<\/p>\n

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The airline is working to provide the affected passengers with new travel<\/a> arrangements so they can complete their journeys to Halifax.<\/p>\n

Alexandra Koch is a Fox News Digital Editor, with a focus on high-impact events that shape national conversation.<\/p>\n

She has covered major national crises, including the L.A. wildfires, Potomac and Hudson River aviation disasters, Boulder terror attack, and Texas Hill Country floods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An Air Canada flight was forced to make an unexpected…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5019,14922,3303,17,226,8436,4408,237,734],"class_list":["post-102575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-airlines","tag-airports","tag-boston","tag-canada","tag-lifestyle","tag-massachusetts","tag-north-america","tag-travel","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}