{"id":703230,"date":"2010-03-28T21:39:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T01:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310ff0439f970c"},"modified":"2010-03-28T21:41:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T01:41:12","slug":"hail-forces-long-beach-bound-jetliner-to-return-to-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/703230","title":{"rendered":"Hail forces Long Beach-bound jetliner to return to New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A JetBlue flight headed from New York to Long Beach made an abrupt landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Sunday night after the pilots believed their aircraft had struck a flock of birds, an airline official said.<\/p>\n<p>Flight 217 returned to the airport around 7:30 p.m. after roughly 30 minutes in the air, said JetBlue spokesman Alex Headrick. Once the Airbus A-320 was on the ground, the airline determined that it had been hit by hail, not birds.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;They decided it would be prudent to return to JFK rather than continue on,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The jet&#8217;s 150 passengers were put on another plane. Headrick had no information on whether the aircraft sustained any significant damage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; David Zahniser<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A JetBlue flight headed from New York to Long Beach made an abrupt landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Sunday night after the pilots believed their aircraft had struck a flock of birds, an airline official said. Flight 217 returned to the airport around 7:30 p.m. after roughly 30 minutes in the air, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2813,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2WWq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}