Emergency Landing on Flight Last Night

Ranger07 said:
Thats pretty mean, even some free flights of your choice would have been a nice touch.
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Seriously? I would've thought that the satisfaction of, you know, saving someone's life would've been sufficient reward for this. Last thing on my mind would be a financial reward :confused:
 
Ranger07 said:
Thats pretty mean, even some free flights of your choice would have been a nice touch.
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My brother-in-law is a GP and helped out an old lady with breathing difficulties for half a flight from Heathrow to Singapore...got a free Business Class return from Singapore to Heathrow that expired after 1 year. He was pretty chuffed
 
Diddums said:
Seriously? I would've thought that the satisfaction of, you know, saving someone's life would've been sufficient reward for this. Last thing on my mind would be a financial reward :confused:
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I agree with you, I'm talking about the airline could have shown a bit more gratitude to the OP.
 
Diddums said:
Seriously? I would've thought that the satisfaction of, you know, saving someone's life would've been sufficient reward for this. Last thing on my mind would be a financial reward :confused:
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By helping you take a significant amount of responsibility not only for that persons health but also for the airlines costs. I've no idea if the airline could try and pursue you for lost income if they felt your actions were inappropriate - it'd be a PR disaster.

If you decide to keep flying, not divert and the person does you're looking at potential criminal charges, let alone a civil claim.

Plus you are then looking after them for the rest of your flight the times I've acted.

So I agree that you you don't expect anything but there is a pretty huge responsibility that some of my colleagues wouldn't take on.
 
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Macky said:
How much would this cost an airline to divert? Do they try and avoid it unless there is something life threatening occuring?
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The main cost is the unscheduled airport landing fees which from what I have seen can be as much as £500k. Then there's the knock on costs of a delayed flight i.e. plane not be available on time for a later flight, missed connections etc.

Source - I used to audit an aircraft chartering company.
 
Well done OP!

My sister is a Dr and I'm terrified one day she'll answer the call if there's a doctor on board.

She's a microbiologist...
 
Well done OP and Mrs.

It seems strange they have so much medical equipment on board with no idea if anyone can actually use it correctly. But I guess it's better be there and not use it than need it and not have it.
 
ZG002 said:
Well done OP and Mrs.

It seems strange they have so much medical equipment on board with no idea if anyone can actually use it correctly. But I guess it's better be there and not use it than need it and not have it.
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The kit they have is basic intensive care kit. Nothing really fancy but enough to keep a sick person alive for a hour or so.
 
Well done, always nice to know that people are willing to help in these situations.

I haven't seen any in flight dramas so far, I have the most basic first aid training but not sure I'd put myself forward, unless there was really no one and I could actually remember some of it.
 
Well played to you got to be some hero in the world but I guess you never found out what happened to her after she gone into medical care?

Edit: Had my first long haul flight other week travelled to and back from Vietnam amount of people sneezing on the way back thought I was going to catch something horrendous I dont think it the country your going to that problem it the plane!!
 
Are you ALS trained?

I had something like this happen to me on a Long hall flight I was the only medic on the flight and we had to land in Sofia. The guy almost died while in the air (COPD) but was much better by the time we finally landed.

The airline gave me a ride home and a upgrade on one leg of my next flight.
 
This happens many times every day although most don't result in a diversion. Nice work on helping out.

I was on a flight to Denver a number of years ago when a man died on board. It was an almost full flight so they strapped him in the back row, one of the displaced passengers had to go take the seat of a positioning pilot who was sat beside me, and the pilot went and took the jump seat. Glad I wasn't sat near the body!
 
As flight crew I want to say thank you to all the medics here who have helped onboard. I don't need to tell you that being ill in an airliner can be very serious and having a medic onboard to help can save the day!

As pilots, in such a situation there are a huge amount of variables to consider before deciding on the best course of action. We have to take into account the location of the aircraft and the location of suitable airports and hospitals for them. This isn't always as simple as it sounds! The aircraft could be many hundreds of miles from the nearest airport if it is over the ocean, or if over Africa the nearest airport could have major security risks! The nearest airport might have bad weather and so be out of limits to land. Some airports in remote areas of Canada have no hospitals anywhere near them!

Having a medic on board who is prepared to get involved can be a life saver and allow us to have the best information possible to deal with the problem.

Thanks!
 
weringo said:
The main cost is the unscheduled airport landing fees which from what I have seen can be as much as £500k. Then there's the knock on costs of a delayed flight i.e. plane not be available on time for a later flight, missed connections etc.

Source - I used to audit an aircraft chartering company.
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Do Airlines not have insurance to cover these sudden costs?
 
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