Sick passengers force emergency landing
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - March 5, 2008 Eight passengers felt sick sometime after the flight took off
from the Dominican Republic. Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood
International Airport spokesman Greg Meyer says Air Transat flight
477 was quarantined on the runway after it landed late Tuesday.
The ill passengers turned out to be family members who had eaten
together. All are hospitalized, and the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention determined that their illness wasn't airborne.
The flight continued its trip to Edmonton, Canada, early
Wednesday.
