An Emirates Air80 A380 plane was quarantined at the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York after many passengers became ill on a flight from Dubai on Wednesday morning, local press reported .

According to the first reports of NBC New York, a hundred passengers became ill, but a subsequent statement from Emirates said that this figure was only "about 10". gap was not immediately obvious.

Emirates Flight 203 landed in New York around 9:15 am.

In its statement, Emirates said:

"Emirates can confirm that a dozen passengers on the EK203 flight from Dubai to New York City have been sick and, on arrival, as a precaution, they have been taken in charge by the local health authorities. our first priority. "

This update appears to have taken place after the aircraft was sent to a transit area where the Port Authority Police and a team of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigated the cause, according to WPIX 11.

It is not immediately known what caused the illness of the passengers.

An apparent passenger on the flight took Twitter with a description of the plane.

"All we have been told is that some passengers have fallen ill and we should stay in our place" said a Twitter user under the name of Larry Coben.

Coben published an image of a "row of ambulances" that met the aircraft at JFK. He followed with another tweet showing the flight crew disembarking and crossing the tarmac towards the emergency vehicles.

Coben then added that passengers still on the plane were asked to fill out a CDC form entitled "Passenger Renters Information Page".

The Airbus A380 is the largest commercial passenger aircraft in the world.

Emirates is by far the first operator of the model, with more than 100 vehicles in its fleet. The seating capacity of aircraft varies, but Emirates offers three configurations that can accommodate 489, 517 or 615 passengers. Emirates models destined for New York are generally equipped with 489 or 517.

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