Woman Dies on AA. Ouch!

[LJDRVR]

Were you on the plane, or part of the crew?

No, but if you'll search the media outlets for American's response, you'll find the airline claims that O2 was administered and that the bottle worked.

Back to your original point: You claim that faced with a similar situation, if the Captain decided to continue you would

"call an emgerancy [sic] and land"

Again, my apologies if English is not your native tongue. I've been flying for twenty five years and I've never heard anybody refer to it as "call" an emergency. Did you mean "Declare" an emergency? (The phraseology an actual pilot would use?)

Regardless of your first language, what really amazes me is your suggestion that you would land anyway. Are you assuming control of the aircraft here?

I'm going out on a limb here:

You are a poser.

If you're for real, I'm glad I'll never have to share a cockpit with you.

 

[Bai B Nai]

Hey, maybe Les Abend WAS the captain on that flight?? He's always doing the JFK-MIA-Caribbeano routes.
Can't wait for next month's FLYING mag!

 

[Coool Hand Luke]

Gents:

-There were 9 Oxygen bottles on that aircraft.

-A Doctor was on the aircraft and attended to the pax

 

[J32driver]

J32

Are you sure you wouldn't be sued for abandoning the pax and traveling companion somewhere short of the destination when there was no reason to stop?




...diversion is the wrong answer... ESPECIALLY ON AN INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT!

Cheers
Wino

International flights divert every now and then. Its a pain in the butt, but nothing more. But the logistics of the divert isn't the real question.

The only question is: Do you treat the passenger as if they are really dead or not?

I'm not saying what is right or wrong. All I'm saying is that if you choose the most conservative approach (treat the passenger as a medical emergency and divert) then you have done the best you can for the ailing passenger, and the best you can to protect your company from litigation.

When they put me on the stand, I want to be able to say that I did everything I could to assist my ailing passenger.

 

[Wino]

Okay,
So the jetstream operator still wants to divert.

So you divert, and you land 3 hours short of your destination and 30,000+ lbs overwieght. you land overweight, blow some tires, get a brake fire and evac the aircraft. 16 pax are injured in the evacuation and the aircraft needs a 1 million dollar inspection.

Still did the conservative thing? Or did you go off half cocked and injure people for no reason.

And you STILL haven't done the dead pax a favor. Instead of bringing him to his or her family, you have left her 1200 miles short of her family, who will now have to pay to have her transported to NY. Does a greiving family really want that extra burden? I know if my wife died on the flight, I would want the body IMMEDIATELY, and I would be pissed if they had dumped her like a sack of trash and ran.

Furthermore, if you happen to be Jewish, the body has to be in the ground by sundown, so again, how is diverting helping?



Cheers
Wino

 

[737 Pylt]

Its about time jke406 got banned.

Amen to that!

737

 

[AAflyer]

Something doesn't seem right. The flight is an A300. It's got to have more than two PO2 bottles.

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAL896

There are 14 02 bottles on board our A300s.

AAflyer

Media hardly ever gets aviation related news accurate, why would you expect anything different here.

 

[bubbers44]

All oxygen bottles are checked by FA's before their first flight so this is BS. You never want the passenger declared dead on the flight because then you need a release to continue to final destination if you divert. The passenger shouldn't have been flying in the first place and would have probably died in Haiti if she had not gotten on the flight. Hopefully the family and lawyers won't get a dime out of this one.

 

[Hung Start]

When they put me on the stand, I want to be able to say that I did everything I could to assist my ailing passenger.

She was dead. They brought her home.

Hung

 

[pipe]

Correct me if I'm wrong here (like you gotta ask for correction on FI).

International flight. Warsaw convention statement on the ticket stock limits liability to 75k doesn't it?

PIPE