A Delta flight was forced to divert partway through its trip after the pilot reported he was sick and needed to ‘go to the hospital.’
Flight DL437 departed from Los Angeles International Airport at 10.45am on Tuesday bound for Logan International Airport in Boston with 147 people on board.
Most of the flight went smoothly until the Boeing 757 was over Michigan, when it was announced to the passengers that the plane would have to make a diverted landing in Detroit because someone on board was ill.
An Air Traffic Control recording revealed that it was the pilot who was sick.
The recording begins with the
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