Crew members decided to make an emergency landing and worked to revive the pilot, Üstün said, but he died before the plane landed. Data from the tracking site FlightAware shows that the Airbus A350 landed at John F. Kennedy International Airport just before 6 a.m.

A Turkish Airlines flight made an emergency landing in New York early Wednesday after the captain lost consciousness midflight and died, an airline spokesman said in a statement. Yahya Ustun, senior vice president for media relations,

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Calling this a “bumpy ride” was an understatement as new video shows an NOAA Hurricane Hunters plane crew dealing with extreme turbulence as the data-collecting flight flew through Category 5 Hurricane Milton.

NOAA Hurricane hunters flew their plane, nicknamed “Miss Piggy,” through Hurricane Milton over the Gulf of Mexico. The hunters made it through major turbulence to collect important data on the storm.

The NOAA Aircraft Operations Center said the trip was to collect data to improve forecasts and support hurricane research. “All that turbulence and we still get the dropsonde out to collect data,” said Underwood in an X post.