Posted on 10/11/2009 5:23:30 PM PDT by ozguy
An Aeroflot Airbus A330-200, registration VQ-BBF performing flight SU-334 (dep Oct 7th) from Havana (Cuba) to Moscow Sheremetyevo (Russia), was enroute overhead the Atlantic at FL350 about 320nm southeast of New York, when the crew talking very good English reported a passenger (German citizen) had become sick and requested to divert to New York's JFK Airport, but changed their diversion destination to Toronto,ON (Canada) just before reaching the top of descent into JFK about 120nm southeast of JFK. The airplane landed safely on Toronto's runway 24R about 2.5 hours after the first decision to divert and about 4.5 hours after departure. The passenger was taken to a local hospital.
Passengers reported, that the German became pale about 30 minutes into the flight initially raising suspicions of being sea sick, but then began to vomit blood about 2 hours into the flight. Two doctors on board provided first aid. The crew decided to divert to New York, but later announced, that their flight wasn't accepted into the United States and they'd need to divert to Toronto.
The airplane reached Moscow with a delay of 3.5 hours.
The German passenger is reported on the way to recovery.
Hey, they are used to national health care, so the US was right in sending them to Canada.
Note “Bob C’s” comment at the end of the article - yes folks - IT IS BUSH’S FAULT!!!!!
Molehill on its way to becoming a mountain. Tempest in a teacup. Much ado about nothing. etc.
I am sorry but the passenger was a German citizen - i.e DOCUMENTED.
We don’t accept those...
Obama’s fault!
East German, no doubt.
So they were only 2 hours out from Havana when they had the problem? There were a lot of places closer than NY.
The UK Telegraph had a story by a brit woman writer who went on holiday to Cuba, got sick from bad food or water and thought she was going to die. I think she became a reformed slight leftist after her experience with free cuban healthcare.
The US does and has always allowed medical/emergency landings regardless of the country of origin/destination of the flight. We are not getting the entire story from this article...
Ummmm this is about a piss poor article. No details just that on the top of their descent at JFK the diverted to Toronto. By Whom, why etc etc.
The food is terrible.
It comes loosely saran wrapped for your eating pleasure.
The cabin was totally unsupervised and chaotic the whole flight.
The movie was vintage Soviet and was about a man who broke the law but was lovingly treated by the Soviet justice system.
Bleh.
I’d like to see some actual evidence that they were denied landing in an emergency.
Notice how much misinformation all these Europeans have about our healthcare system? Thanks a lot, Barry. With all the crap this administration has blamed on Pres. Bush, fifty years from now people who weren’t even alive at the time will be chanting “Bush’s fault” when anything goes wrong.
i think we have to accept flights diverted due to medical emergency as part of an international treaty. i agree with you, this sounds totally wrong.
A German gets sick after a deviant sexual visit to the third world.
Color me unconcerned.
The phrase “when the crew talking very good English” raises a red flag for me. That’s a very strange construction for a native speaker of the tongue.
Something’s not right here.
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