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BREAKING NEWS: American Airlines captain dies at the controls despite desperate efforts..
dailymail.co.uk ^ | Oct. 5, 2015 | John Hutchinson

Posted on 10/05/2015 11:14:32 AM PDT by PROCON

An airline captain has reportedly died at the controls despite a flight attendant with medical training trying to revive him.

In a recording, the first officer is heard radioing in the emergency to ground control explaining that the captain has become 'incapacitated.'

American Airlines flight 550 was en-route to Boston from Phoenix earlier this morning when the pilot was taken ill at the controls.

An air stewardess - apparently a former nurse - fought to save his life but to no avail.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: frithguild

I don’t think I will ever be over Macho Grande.


21 posted on 10/05/2015 11:39:14 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: shotgun

Who is the Asian gal?
I swear she is the spittin image of my X (30 years ago)


22 posted on 10/05/2015 11:39:22 AM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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To: PROCON

40% of all US deaths are cardiovascular related. The first sign of heart disease in 25% of heart attack patients is a fatal heart attack. The LADA- left anterior descending artery, is responsible for 60% of the blood supplying the heart, and the other 6 heart arteries supply the remaining 40%. The LADA is referred to- as the widow maker for this reason. My knowledge rests on the fact that I am a heart attack survivor... and recipient of a pacemaker and a stent- the stent being placed in the LADA. In my skydiving days, anytime you survived a reserve parachute deployment was known as being in “bonus days”. The Captain, unfortunately... fell into the 25% category. BOOM! Lights out.


23 posted on 10/05/2015 11:42:32 AM PDT by freepersup (Patrolling the waters off Free Republic one dhow at a time.)
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To: wrench

Yes—RIP to the captain.

I was always a white knuckled airline passenger. If all goes well, I will never have to board another one.

Someone once said to me that if it’s your time to go, you will go. I always asked but what if it’s the pilot’s time to go?

Of course that is the reason that each flight has two pilots—and thank goodness they did in this instance.


24 posted on 10/05/2015 11:42:44 AM PDT by basil ( God bless the USA!)
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To: wrench

Yes—RIP to the captain.

I was always a white knuckled airline passenger. If all goes well, I will never have to board another one.

Someone once said to me that if it’s your time to go, you will go. I always asked but what if it’s the pilot’s time to go?

Of course that is the reason that each flight has two pilots—and thank goodness they did in this instance.


25 posted on 10/05/2015 11:42:47 AM PDT by basil ( God bless the USA!)
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To: PROCON
Does anyone know how to fly a plane?
26 posted on 10/05/2015 11:43:30 AM PDT by mc5cents (Pray for America)
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To: basil

Back before the airlines flew as full as they do now, odds were there were several more pilots in the back commuting to or from their home to work station.

Harder to do now, so not carrying spares as baggage any more.

Some guys did it daily, some twice a week.


27 posted on 10/05/2015 11:46:13 AM PDT by wrench
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To: TexasTransplant

They didn’t give the credits at the end of the episode.


28 posted on 10/05/2015 11:49:44 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: onedoug

ping


29 posted on 10/05/2015 11:50:31 AM PDT by windcliff
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To: PROCON

Rush said the plane made an emergency landing in Syracuse, New York.


30 posted on 10/05/2015 11:52:00 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Liberals are like the Taliban and ISIS....destroying cultural icons they don't like.)
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To: PROCON

Link to audio
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2015/10/05/american-airlines-flight-550-boston-phoenix-syracuse-medical-emergency/


31 posted on 10/05/2015 11:53:17 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: PROCON

Several years ago, some of my coworkers lost their lives when their medic helo crashed while flying with patient. It was ultimately concluded that the cause of the crash was the pilot dying of a heart attack en route.


32 posted on 10/05/2015 11:54:34 AM PDT by ziravan (Buck the Establishment.)
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To: PROCON

Considering the captain usually only flies the plane at takeoff and landing, leaving the copilot for the boring enroute stuff, I’m sure it was more a scary emotional situation than a dangerous operational one.


33 posted on 10/05/2015 11:54:38 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: PROCON

Time to discuss the lifting of the age 60 rule.


34 posted on 10/05/2015 11:55:35 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: mc5cents

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7WMQUDGDD4


35 posted on 10/05/2015 11:58:47 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Section 20.)
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To: windcliff; stylecouncilor

I saw it. Poor guy.

RIP


36 posted on 10/05/2015 12:06:46 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: PROCON
Died with his boots on.

RIP, Captain

37 posted on 10/05/2015 12:07:00 PM PDT by JPG (What's the difference between the Rats and the GOPe? Nothing.)
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To: ClearCase_guy; ObozoMustGo2012; TalonDJ
Striker, you get that ship down... and down safe...

... and there just might be a few of us who will forget about Macho Grande.

38 posted on 10/05/2015 12:07:01 PM PDT by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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To: PROCON

MY uncle was a Miami-based Airline Pilot. He had a heart attack about ten minutes after getting off his International flight.

He said his first thought was “OMG, I won’t be able to fly again!’

Then his second thought was, “Thank God, I won’t be able to fly again!”


39 posted on 10/05/2015 12:08:36 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: dainbramaged
Yeah, a real knee slapper right there. I’ll bet his family is cracking up, too. Crass.

I'm with you. I'm amazed at the lack of class and the immaturity on display on this thread.

40 posted on 10/05/2015 12:10:37 PM PDT by pgkdan (But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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