{"id":390238,"date":"2026-03-20T23:34:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T13:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/delta-sydney-flight-turbulence-crew-hospitalized\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T23:34:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T13:34:52","slug":"brief-but-brutal-3-delta-crew-hospitalized-after-sydney-mid-air-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=390238","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Brief\u2019 But Brutal: 3 Delta Crew Hospitalized After Sydney Mid-Air Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three members of crew from a<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254993\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/delta-air-lines\/\"  >Delta Air Lines<\/a><\/span> flight have been sent to hospital after their flight&#8217;s arrival in Sydney proved rougher than expected. They were among a total of five people on board the Atlanta-based US &#8216;big three&#8217; legacy carrier and SkyTeam founding member&#8217;s Airbus A350-900 that were injured after the service, which had a grand total of 245 passengers on board, encountered &#8216;brief&#8217; but brutal turbulence on approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The flight hit a patch of turbulence while descending towards its Australian destination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[430,396,476,273,565,1053,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-a350","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-australia","category-delta-air-lines","category-sydney-kingsford-smith-airport","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=390238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390239,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390238\/revisions\/390239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}