{"id":434327,"date":"2026-05-22T04:02:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/air-france-flight-barred-detroit-ebola-entry-violation\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T04:02:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:02:37","slug":"should-not-have-boarded-air-france-flight-barred-from-detroit-over-ebola-entry-violation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=434327","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Should Not Have Boarded&#8221;: Air France Flight Barred From Detroit Over Ebola Entry Violation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254866\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/air-france\/\"  >Air France<\/a><\/span> flight from <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"278727\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/paris\/\"  >Paris<\/a><\/span> to <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"191464\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/detroit\/\"  >Detroit<\/a><\/span> was instead diverted to Montreal after it was identified that a Congolese national had boarded the flight in error. The Central African country is amid a widespread <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2006522\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-screening-uganda-passengers-ebola\/\" >Ebola<\/a><\/span> outbreak, which then prohibited the flight from touching down in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air France&#8217;s AF378 flight was forced to land in Montreal after U.S. authorities identified a passenger from the Ebola-stricken Congo.<\/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":[1719,396,476,1716,94,1737,423,20224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-france","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-detroit-metropolitan-wayne-county-airport","category-france","category-paris-charles-de-gaulle-airport","category-united-states","category-virus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434327","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=434327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434329,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434327\/revisions\/434329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=434327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=434327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=434327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}