Crime & Safety

7 Airline Passengers Hospitalized After Landing At Dulles: Report

Seven passengers on a flight that left BWI Airport were taken to the hospital after being diverted to Dulles Airport Friday.

Seven passengers on a flight that left BWI Airport were taken to the hospital after being diverted to Dulles Airport.
Seven passengers on a flight that left BWI Airport were taken to the hospital after being diverted to Dulles Airport. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

DULLES AIRPORT, VA -- Seven passengers were taken off a plane that had been diverted to Dulles Airport and were then transported to the hospital due to an odor, according to a report.

WJLA reports that a Boeing 737 plane that took off from Baltimore-Washington Airport on its way to San Francisco was diverted to Dulles after an odor was detected on the plane Friday morning.

Dulles Airport fire and rescue crews responded to a report of an odor in the cabin of United Airlines flight 1675, which landed at Runway 19C without incident, according to the report.

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