{"id":184663,"date":"2025-08-29T13:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/184663\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T13:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:27:10","slug":"aspen-houston-flight-diverts-to-austin-due-to-turbulence-two-hospitalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/184663\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen-Houston flight diverts to Austin due to turbulence; two hospitalized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Two people were injured after a flight from Aspen to Houston was diverted to Austin on Thursday due to turbulence.<\/p>\n<p>SkyWest Flight 5971, operating as United Express from Aspen to Houston, was diverted to Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, according to the airline.<\/p>\n<p>SkyWest said that the flight landed safely and was met by medical personnel with Austin-Travis County EMS on the ground.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/american-airlines-gears-up-for-labor-day-surge-with-extra-flights-from-austin#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/american-airlines-gears-up-for-labor-day-surge-with-extra-flights-from-austin#\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | American Airlines gears up for Labor Day surge with extra flights from Austin<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ATCEMS said that medics evaluated 39 passengers and four crew members for potential injuries, according to the airport.<\/p>\n<p>Two adult patients were taken to area hospitals out of an abundance of caution, the airport said. No injuries are life-threatening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Two people were injured after a flight from Aspen to Houston was diverted to Austin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":184664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[31398,359,19032,7730,4345,63834,103753,358,12401,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-184663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-aspen","9":"tag-austin","10":"tag-flight","11":"tag-hospitalized","12":"tag-houston","13":"tag-passengers","14":"tag-skywest","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-turbulence","17":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115112289572780809","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}