Frontier Flight Declares Medical Emergency After 4 Flight Attendants Fall Ill

'All my flight attendants have headaches. And now three, now four, are nauseous,' the pilot told air traffic control in a recorded radio call.

Audrey Simons

Published: 8/14/2026, 5:53:37 PM EDT

Frontier Flight Declares Medical Emergency After 4 Flight Attendants Fall Ill — A Frontier Airlines plane lands at the Miami International Airport in Miami on June 16, 2021. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Four Frontier Airlines flight attendants fell ill aboard a plane traveling from Ohio to Florida on Thursday morning, prompting the pilots to declare a medical emergency prior to landing.

Frontier flight 1046 departed the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport around 7:50 a.m. local time and arrived at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport just after 10:10 a.m., according to FlightAware data.

The issue was reported as the plane was approaching Fort Lauderdale. In a recorded radio call shared online, one of the pilots could be heard telling air traffic control that several flight attendants had become sick mid-flight. The pilot asked for medical personnel to meet the plane at the gate.

"If you could call the tower and have them meet us at our gate, A4, for developing medical," the pilot said. "All my flight attendants have headaches. And now three, now four, are nauseous."

According to multiple media reports, there were a total of five flight attendants on the Airbus A321 twin-jet aircraft. The plane landed safely in Fort Lauderdale and was able to taxi to the gate in about four minutes.

Online tracking shows that a return flight to Cleveland was scheduled to depart Fort Lauderdale at 12:30 p.m. local time but was canceled.

Frontier Airlines has not released any details about what may have caused the crew members to become ill or provided an update on their condition. However, Fort Lauderdale airport officials told CBS News that two of the flight attendants were taken to the hospital following the incident.

NTD reached out to Frontier, along with the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, for more information, but a response was not received by publication time.

A similar incident occurred late last month. On July 25, an American Airlines flight headed from Rome to Philadelphia was diverted to Dublin after several flight attendants became sick while in the air.

Flight AA719 was traveling from the Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport to the Philadelphia International Airport when six of the nine cabin crew members on board began feeling ill and dizzy, American Airlines told People at the time.

"Paramedics met the aircraft at the gate out of an abundance of caution and the flight attendants and one customer were evaluated and subsequently released," the company said.

American Airlines told the outlet that the flight had been diverted because of an odor associated with an oven on the aircraft. The company said that all affected customers were given hotel accommodations and were able to continue their journeys to Philadelphia on alternative flights.