Posted on 10/11/2009 5:23:30 PM PDT by ozguy
Very odd. How’s this for a theory? Flight diverts towards JFK, but then some big-shot US citizen on board starts complaining that he’ll be in trouble for visiting Cuba, perhaps on business, if he has to land in the USA. So the flight diverts to Canada instead.
The sick guy was vomiting blood. If they suspected ebola or some other wonderful hemorrhagic ick and panicked, the guy wouldn’t have gotten any health care, anyway, the plane would have been quarantined on the tarmac.
re: denied landing in an emergency
Maybe the didn’t declare an emergency. ATC is not going to do it for them, it’s up to the PIC. The flight crew could have decided for whatever reason they would prefer landing in Canada.
We’re not getting the whole story here.
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