Diverted flight

A Boeing 737-900 ER operated by Alaska Airlines was diverted to the Yakima area, according to reporting from Yakima Herald-Republic. The incident concerns Alaska Airlines Flight 322, with local coverage noting the diversion occurred on Sunday, November 8, 2026. A photo accompanying the report shows the aircraft at Yakima Air Terminal, credited to Christopher Hopkins, the terminal director. The supplied material does not include details on the reason for the diversion, any injuries, or subsequent actions.

Across the compiled material, other outlets discuss a separate United Airlines diversion tied to a wave of hoax bomb threats across European airports, but those reports do not corroborate a specific aircraft or flight number in connection to the Alaska Airlines diversion described by the Yakima Herald-Republic. AOL.co.uk reports a United Airlines flight from Tel Aviv to New York was diverted amid threats; however, the source material explicitly notes no information about injuries, the exact flight number, or the final destination after diversion. This suggests that the Alaska Airlines event and the Europe-wide threat reporting are treated as distinct items within the same aggregated material set.

The Mirror provides additional context on the United Airlines diversion, identifying the flight as UA168 on the Tel Aviv–Newark route, which was diverted to Athens International Airport after a mid-flight emergency was declared. The Mirror notes an emergency code 7700 mention in some outlets but emphasizes that no official cause for the diversion had been released and that there were no disclosed details about injuries or on-board events at the time. This airline-specific detail, however, does not establish a direct link to the Alaska Airlines diversion in Yakima.

Daily Star and AOL.co.uk reiterate the European-threat and diversion narrative surrounding United UA168, indicating a split of sources reporting a diversion to Athens due to an odor aboard and amid a broader backdrop of threats. The Daily Star mentions 230 passengers and 13 crew on board at the time of diversion, with deplaning in Athens and arrangements to reboard another aircraft to Newark. These details pertain to the United Airlines flight rather than the Alaska Airlines flight in Yakima.

The Tanzania Times features a broader aviation-news framing for SmartMarty Sky, focusing on Kenya Airways and related codeshare disputes rather than the Yakima diversion. This piece mentions multiple regional and international outlets but centers on contractual tensions involving SAA and Kenya Airways. It does not add new factual details about the Yakima incident, the Alaska Airlines flight, or any injuries, flight numbers, or specific actions tied to the Yakima event.

A number of other items in the material set describe disruptions caused by Diwali-related smoke over Chennai, India, including the IndiGo Raipur-to-Chennai flight 6E2002 diverting to Bengaluru due to degraded runway visibility and then returning to land in Chennai later. The Times of India provides the specific diversion timing and runway-visibility thresholds, while DT Next reports the broader impact on 26 flights at Chennai airport, including 11 arriving and 15 departing flights affected. These Chennai-area reports are geographically, temporally, and contextually separate from the Yakima diversion and the European-threat diversions described elsewhere in the material.

On the broader European-threat and diversion theme, sources like Castanet Kamloops, WION, The Telegraph, Yahoo News UK, and AeroTime contribute to the surrounding context of diversions and security checks across multiple countries and airports, noting fighter jet scrambles and extensive checks during this period. However, none of these sources provide added verification or details linking them to the Alaska Airlines Yakima diversion or to any specific injuries or outcomes tied to Flight 322. Simple Flying summarizes UA168’s diversion to Athens with an emphasis on the lack of disclosed cause at the time, while EX-YU Aviation News frames United Airlines’ corporate context rather than new flight specifics about the Yakima event. None of these outlets supply corroborating data for Alaska Airlines Flight 322 beyond the Yakima Herald-Republic’s report.

In summary, the available material confirms at least one diversion involving a Boeing 737-900 ER operated by Alaska Airlines, identified as Flight 322, diverting to the Yakima area and depicted at Yakima Air Terminal. The reporting provided does not disclose the diversion’s cause, injuries, or subsequent actions, and the material set includes broader, separate reports about United Airlines flights diverted amid European threats and unrelated domestic disruptions in Chennai related to Diwali smoke. Where details diverge or reference other events, the material specifies the outlet source (for example, AOL.co.uk or The Mirror) to distinguish them from the Alaska Airlines Yakima diversion. No definitive injury, aircraft damage, or formal investigation update is recorded within the supplied sources for Flight 322.