As if leaving multiple disabled passengers to fend for themselves in recent weeks and forcing those passengers who need wheelchair assistance to drag themselves off flights, the world’s worst airline is now expanding their negligence to letting people die.
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7015799
Apologies for so many quotes but the negligence runs deep on this one. The answer why AC didn’t divert is obvious. $$$. Cheaper to let him die and settle than pay for the diversion. Not to mention the use of a third party who they’ll lay the blame on, just like they did when they forced that disabled man to drag himself off the plane while the flight attendants watched and refused to help.
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Flight AC051 had left Delhi shortly after midnight local time. When Pant's symptoms started seven hours later, it was over Europe. Pande says she pleaded with the cabin crew to divert the plane and land in order to get her father to a hospital.
Instead, the flight stayed on course for nine more hours, travelling over Ireland, across the Atlantic Ocean and Eastern Canada before touching ground in Montreal. Paramedics were waiting — but Pant died as they worked on him.
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The airline's crew "properly followed the procedures" for dealing with onboard medical emergencies, wrote Fitzpatrick. When asked, he declined to explain the procedures.
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Fitzpatrick says the crew made "repeated pages" for a passenger with medical training to come forward — but no one did.
Pande says a crew member only made those announcements after her mother-in-law insisted.
Meanwhile, the pilot was speaking with Phoenix-based MedAire, a third-party medical provider used by over 180 airlines, according to the company.
Fitzpatrick says MedAire lets the crew to talk with doctors familiar with the challenges of practising medicine on a plane "to evaluate the passenger and devise a care plan."
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Go Public has learned that in the case of an in-flight medical emergency on Air Canada, the chief flight attendant fills out a checklist that is given to the pilot, who then discusses the case with a MedAire physician.
The airline would not tell Go Public what the checklist said in Pant's case. His daughter says she doesn't remember seeing anyone fill out a form about her father.
Once the plane was over Ireland — the last possible stop before the Atlantic Ocean — Pande says she again urgently asked the crew to change course. Her father now had severe back ache and was throwing up.
She was told the plane would continue to Montreal because Pant's condition was deemed "not life-threatening."
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Go Public asked Air Canada how the decision to stay on course was made.
Fitzpatrick, the spokesperson, said he was unable to provide that information. He said the crew "provided continuous care," including offering him Aspirin.
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Go Public contacted five physicians — two family doctors, two emergency room physicians and a cardiologist.
All five said Pant's symptoms indicated a serious cardiac event.
"This is a major medical emergency," said Vancouver cardiologist Dr. Vicki Bernstein, who practised for 40 years before retiring two years ago. "I can't believe that [MedAire] wouldn't have suggested that they divert."
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