On making it difficult for everyone else

There was another case where an airline captain who
had passed a full CAA Class 1 ATP medical only a few
days previously had a heart attack and died during
a commercial flight with many passengers on board.
The co-pilot completed the flight without further incident.

State regulation does not guarantee flight safety,
but just costs pilots lots of money!

Derek Copeland


At 11:24 04 May 2007, Dan G wrote:
On May 4, 12:12 pm, Dan G wrote:
An ASN database query gives:

http://aviation-safety.net/database/....php?Event=FCI


Should say that list is for 'flight crew incapacitation',
which
includes a range of occurences. However a notable absence
from that
list is the 1972 Trident crash near Staines, just outside
of London.
The captain had an acute heart condition during a cockpit
emergency
that no doubt compounded the problem.


Dan