A plane has been quarantined upon landing at New York’s John. F. Kennedy Airport after multiple people said they were feeling sick, according to reports.
The plane, Emirates flight 203 coming from Dubai, had more than 500 passengers on board. It landed at around 9:10 a.m. ET, NBC reported.
Officials from Emirates airline said 10 passengers had taken ill. Earlier media reports had reported about 100 sick passengers.
Passengers “were immediately checked by local health authorities and those needing medical attention will be attended to,” said an airline spokeswoman in a statement.
Fox News said hazardous materials crews were called to the airport along with officials from the Port authority and the Center for Disease Control.
Passenger Larry Coben told NBC News that he was told there were sick passengers, but he hadn’t seen any sick passengers himself.
Rapper Vanilla Ice was also reportedly on the plane, and posted on Twitter that there was “tons of ambulances and fire trucks and police all over the place.”
Eric Phillips, a spokesman for Mayor Bill de Blasio, tweeted that the flight stopped in Mecca, which is experiencing a flu outbreak, and “early indications point to that as a possibility.”
A New York police counterterrorism division tweeted it appeared to be a “medical situation.”
— With files from the Associated Press
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