Plane Quarantined At JFK Airport After 10 Passengers Fall Ill Aboard A Flight From Dubai

In this image made from video provided by WABC 7, emergency response crews gather outside a plane at JFK Airport after several passengers became sick on an Emirates flight from Dubai Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018, in New York. (WABC 7 via AP)
In this frame from video emergency response crews gather outside a plane at JFK Airport amid reports of ill passengers aboard a flight from Dubai on Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018, in New York. (WABC 7 via AP)

NEW YORK (AP) — A plane has been quarantined at New York’s Kennedy Airport when about 10 passengers became ill aboard a flight from Dubai.

The Emirates flight landed around 9:10 a.m. Wednesday. The airline says the passengers were getting medical attention “as a precaution.”

Video from news helicopters showed the jet sitting on the tarmac surrounded by ambulances, vehicles and airport personnel.

Passengers were exiting the plane with their luggage and getting on to buses.

Representatives of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were on the scene.

A New York police counterterrorism division tweeted it appeared to be a “medical situation.”

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  1. Avatar for paulw paulw says:

    So the pasengers are being taken somewhere else for quarantine?

  2. Okay, this story lost a zero somewhere along the line. Last time I saw it, it was a hundred passengers.

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    Trump Pandemic?

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