Flight diverted to Pittsburgh International Airport after passenger suffers medical emergency

(File Photo of the Pittsburgh International Airport Airside Terminal)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) A flight was diverted to Pittsburgh International Airport after a passenger suffered a medical emergency. 

Director of Public Affairs Bob Kerlik told WPXI that an American Airlines flight traveling from New York to Austin landed at the airport in Pittsburgh at 3:25 p.m. yesterday. 

A passenger was taken to Allegheny General Hospital from the airport.