Flight attendant helps pilot land plane

[ksu_aviator]

If he needed help from the back and "declared an emergency" Then he should have landed at the nearest suitable airport. If your over the pacific that would be different, but not flying over the US to land at destination. Outcome was fine, but to waste a bunch of time enroute teaching/coaching her will not be looked upon well. If she was just sitting there to watch for traffic that will be ok but if they landed with her up there (which they did) then that is an emergency. Crew memeber incapacitaion will have to be reported to NTSB. They should have landed ASAP and got him to hospital.

Don't act like a lawyer.

There are plenty of reasons to justify the actions. First is, as a single pilot with an unqualified assistant, the airport he is most familiar with is the safest. Why land in Aimes Iowa or some other airport while trying to get new landing performance from load control, coordinate with ATC, reconfiguring and all the other tasks that come with it, all single pilot, when you can continue to an airport that requires no additional planning with more time to get your unqualified assistant proficient enough to assist you in a normal landing? The first reason is good enough that another isn't needed.

You can second guess a pilot that crashes an airplane...but when an emergency is handled with absolutely no hint of a problem the second guessing needs to stop. Bottom line. 100% survival and an airplane that can be reused within minutes = perfect.