Jet2 returns to airport after death in mid-air

[I_Love_NY]

A Jet 2 plane from Alicante-Leeds Bradford airport, made an emergency landing in Alicante 20 minutes after take-off, after a 66 year-old tourist had a heart attack.




"A BRITISH tourist on the way home from his holidays in the Alicante province has died of a heart attack in mid-air.
Emergency services reported yesterday that the holidaymaker, a 66-year-old man, became indisposed whilst on the Jet2.com flight from Alicante to Leeds-Bradford airport.
The flight had only taken off 20 minutes previously.
As a result, the pilot turned around and went back to Alicante airport to land the airline.
Paramedics and police, who had been called to the scene before the craft touched down, attempted to revive the passenger, who had slipped into unconsciousness.
But when they failed to do so, he was rushed to hospital.
The victim was pronounced dead on arrival shortly after 21.00hrs."

The flight eventually landed in LBA at 23:16

[Thurian]

RIP to the person. A lot of golf courses etc have defibulators in place and people trained to use them, why not aircraft? I think a pilot(or co-pilot?) also died very recently in mid air from a heart attack. It is the delay in getting medical attention that causes death in a lot of heart attacks and not the attack itself.

[11Fan]

(aside from the hole in one)

Clever

[Thurian]

There IS a very good comparison between the two, if you have a heart attack on the main street or a hotel lobby there's a fair chance you'll survive, the 20 mins it takes for a plane to land or the 20 mins it takes for paras to get to some remote corner of a golf course equals the same thing. A lower chance of survival. Maybe the guy would have died anyway, maybe he might have survived.

[AJ]

RIP to the person. A lot of golf courses etc have defibulators in place and people trained to use them, why not aircraft? I think a pilot(or co-pilot?) also died very recently in mid air from a heart attack. It is the delay in getting medical attention that causes death in a lot of heart attacks and not the attack itself.

We have them on Qantas aircraft.

[P3_Super_Bee]

RIP to the person. A lot of golf courses etc have defibulators in place and people trained to use them, why not aircraft? I think a pilot(or co-pilot?) also died very recently in mid air from a heart attack. It is the delay in getting medical attention that causes death in a lot of heart attacks and not the attack itself.

Its required for US registered aircraft that can carry payloads higher than 7500LBS.

Probably so in many more countries, Airlines have been putting them in aircraft since the early 90's. Sometimes a defibrillator isn't enough.

[Vnav]

Here is a link for the FAA's Adivsory Circular 121-33B: http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Gu.../AC121-33B.pdf

In it you will find the requirements for Automatic External Defibrilators as well as the required contents of the Emergency Medical kits. To make a long story short, in accordance with FAR 121.803, any plane in the US over 7500 lbs with a Flight Attendant on board must have and AED and the Flight Attendant must be trainned on it.

This is a relatively new FAR written in 2004 and was the result of several high profile lawsuits including 'Somes Vs United Airlines' and 'Stone Vs Frontier Airlines'.