American Passenger Dies on Flight

[Papa Woody]

I love it.....

CNN said "oxygen bottles are carried primarily in case of cabin depressurization, but can be used for other emergencies."

 

[Soverytired]

Well, nice the see "the Media" did it's normal bang-up job. There are 12 (TWELVE) O2 bottles on board. This would have taken any real report about 5 minutes to find out and deduce the attorney was telling half-truths, at best.

Just something to remember every time the press reports about ANYTHING aviation.

 

[moonship]

This is the typical media play looking for the worst case story and only listening to the first report (i.e. the distraut family). I have been a paramedic for 10 years before going into aviation and this was not an uncommon circumstance. You have to treat the family as a patient as well and explain to them what they are seeing. Defibrillators will only shock TWO heart rhythms in cardiac arrest so if the person does not present in one of those its doesn't shock and the family thinks you are not doing everything you can or "it broken" in this case. As for the oxygen I too have a hard time believing that it was not functioning who knows it could be "the bag not inflating although oxygen is flowing"

 

[FreightGod]

It's a half truth to say that two bottles of O2 didn't work when the rest did.

Rather a direct lie as all the bottles worked just fine..

Relatives trying to collect..?

 

[Draginass]

If the original report is to be believed, the lady was already gravely ill before boarding the airplane. People that have serious medical conditions SHOULD NOT be flying around in aluminum tubes far from competent medical care. I can appreciate the fact that if I were sick, I'd want to get as far away from a 10th world craphole like Haiti too. As chronically sick as this lady was there's no way she should be there in the first place.

This is a matter of personal responsibility and common consideration for others, which is sorely lacking in our society. Too many, especially old people, think the world owes them a high degree of special privilege, and have OTHER people pay for it in terms of money and inconvenience.

If you require assistance, bring an assistant. If you're seriously chronically ill, DON'T travel in aircraft.

 

[say again]

Relatives trying to collect..?

EXACTLY what I was thinking!!!

 

[DiverDriver]

It's actually in our FOM. If a pax is declared dead the CA can continue on to the destination.

 

[Turtlesfly]

It's actually in our FOM. If a pax is declared dead the CA can continue on to the destination.

That's messed up - gotta say

 

[DrewBlows]

Would a Captain please comment on the aA Captain's decision to continue to NY with a dead body stretched out in first class.

IMH(FO)O, a boneheaded call.

W

What is gained by diverting? To the best of my knowledge modern medical science hasn't discovered a way to bring the dead back to life and you certainly aren't going to make the deceased 'more dead' by continuing.

 

[regionalcap]

We had the same thing in our FOM at ASA. Once the doctor declares the person dead, then you continue to the destination.

 

[EMB170Pilot]

We had the same thing in our FOM at ASA. Once the doctor declares the person dead, then you continue to the destination.

F that

 

[Turtlesfly]

the point, which I thought would be obvious, isn't that you're going to bring the dead person back. It's that you get the living people away from the dead person pronto

 

[princeton]

the point, which I thought would be obvious, isn't that you're going to bring the dead person back. It's that you get the living people away from the dead person pronto

What, you're afraid of a dead body? I wouldn't care if there was a dead body next to me as long as we don't do a pointless divert. I am sure the family of the dead person woUld prefer to get home - do you know what it costs to fly a body?

 

[Soverytired]

I wonder what the rules are for securing a dead body in the cabin?

Seriously. You'd have to have it tied down like any other cargo. I suppose you have to put the deceased in a seat and "buckle up".

Then you'd have to deal with rigor mortis when pulling the body out if it's a long flight.

Ick. Best not to think about.

 

[PBRstreetgang]

Would a Captain please comment on the aA Captain's decision to continue to NY with a dead body stretched out in first class.

IMH(FO)O, a boneheaded call.

W

The decision to UPGRADE a pax, dead or not is a CS function. I think the company will fry the CA for such a blatant disregard for profit.
PBR
P.S. Like she needed the extra leg room anyway!