CWG 2010 – Canadian flight diverted

An ill passenger caused a flight carrying Canada’s badminton players to the Delhi Commonwealth Games to be diverted en route to its European stopover.

Canada’s major media outlets today carried a Canadian Press story about the diversion of a flight carrying Canadian badminton players, to the Delhi Commonwealth Games.  According to the article, a passenger became ill on a Toronto-Brussells flight and the plane had to be diverted to Gander, Newfoundland, a scenario vaguely reminiscent of the movie Flight Plan.  The passenger, who was not an athlete, did not reboard the plane when it resumed its journey to Europe a few hours later.

Ironically, Anna Rice, in her blog on CBC this week, was citing a recent dengue fever outbreak among her misgivings about travelling to Delhi but it was a Canadian illness that produced the latest hiccup for Canada’s badminton representation in the Games.

Read the original story on the Winnipeg Free Press here.