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Toronto flight forced to land 3,000 km away after emergency on board

Kimia Afshar Mehrabi

created: Sept. 23, 2025, 2:55 p.m. | updated: Sept. 24, 2025, 1:53 p.m.

A Toronto-bound flight was forced to cut its roughly 12-hour journey short last week after a passenger suffered a medical emergency on board. On Sept. 15, a long-haul Air Canada flight departed from Tokyo's Haneda Airport at 6:13 p.m. and was headed for Toronto Pearson International Airport. While flying over Canada, the crew was forced to divert to Yellowknife Airport after a medical emergency took place on board the aircraft. The flight landed safely in Yellowknife roughly nine hours after taking off from Haneda Airport at 12:03 p.m. local time. Flight radar shows the aircraft diverting from its normal route, which usually takes it over Vancouver, to land in Yellowknife.

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