Posted on 11/26/2022 2:58:05 PM PST by george76
He could not be revived. Cause of death unknown; American will not disclose any details, including his vaccination status. The co-pilot took over and averted catastrophe..
At 7:59 p.m. on Sat., Nov. 19, Captain Patrick Ford collapsed at the controls of his American Eagle Embraer 175 - only seconds after the 76-seat jet had left the runway in Chicago.
Ford was speaking to an air traffic controller at Chicago O’Hare, one of the world’s busiest airports, when his voice abruptly stopped, a publicly available recording of the incidents show.
“Can I help you?” the controller anxiously asked, seconds later.
“We need to return, captain is incapacitated,” Ford’s copilot coolly reported.
The jet, bound for Columbus, Ohio, had barely reached 2,000 feet of altitude. Any mistake could have led it to crash within seconds.
But the Embraer’s copilot, Captain Brandon Hendrickson, took control. Hendrickson brought the jet to 5,000 feet and within minutes had it back on the ground at O’Hare. Through Hendrickson was in the first officer’s seat, he was actually overseeing Ford as a “line check airman” because Ford was so new to Envoy Air, a regional carrier owned by American Airlines.
Ford’s body remained in the pilot’s seat throughout.
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Envoy’s vice president for flight operations reported the death to its pilots Sunday, but beyond that American and Envoy have not publicly disclosed the near-disaster. A spokesperson for Envoy did not respond to specific questions about what had happened, acknowledging only that a “crew member” had become ill “shortly after departure” and “passed away at the hospital.”
In fact, the recording shows that Ford was either unconscious or dead throughout the short flight. “He’s knocked out,” Hendrickson told the control tower just a minute after taking over. “We’re going to need paramedics.”
Three days later, word of the close call is spreading among pilots at American and elsewhere, who are lauding Hendrickson’s heroism.
“Dude had to keep cool to get this plane on the ground safely and luckily kept a much larger disaster from occurring in the very busy airspace and land beneath Chicago Intl.,” one pilot wrote me.
“His handling of the situation was superb,” another wrote.
Among pilots who resisted mRNA Covid vaccines - a small but vocal minority - Ford’s death has also thrown into question possible cardiac side effects from the shots. American and Envoy declined to disclose if Ford had been vaccinated or boosted. But most pilots are vaccinated, following heavy government and airline pressure in the summer and fall of 2021.
Pilots at American have also noted a sharp increase in disability filings since last summer, although no one has yet directly connected those to the mRNA shots.
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Addendum: the questions from me American and Envoy would not answer, reproduced verbatim:
1) Has a cause of death been determined? Will an autopsy be performed and will its findings be made public?
2) How old was Captain Ford? Was he married and did he have children? Where was he based and where did he live?
3) When did Captain Ford join AA/Envoy? Where had he worked previously (I am told Republic Airways)? Was he given a medical exam upon joining? Are medical exams standard procedures for new pilots at Envoy, or does a standard FAA clearance serve instead?
4) How recently had he received medical clearance to fly? My understanding is that pilots over 40 must receive an FAA medical certificate every six months, and those under 40 once a year.
5) Can AA/Envoy provide any details about the incident and the flight? I have seen a text from someone who claims to have spoken to Captain Hendrickson claiming that the aircraft went into a steep bank and only quick action from Captain Hendrickson averted disaster. Is this correct?
6) How many passengers were on board the aircraft?
7) What steps if any does AA/Envoy plan to take as a result of this incident?
8) Was Captain Ford vaccinated against Covid? Had he received a booster or a second booster?
Not to ruin a good argument (purebloods has a distasteful afterlife) but it was the vaccinated and their pushers promoting the unvaccinated were the killers of the elderly, weak and children by not getting the shot like good little Germans, er... Citizens.
We were the demonized minority and got punished for our beliefs
But, still mudbloods is offensive connotations.
It’s past time that this WUHAN HOAX
Be addressed Honestly.
Nuremberg 2.0 is to much to expect
But quite appropriate!
.
Three Years we have been manipulated,
Intimidated,Jailed and Ostracized
by Government,Coworkers and Family.
.
Amnesty for the Unvaxxed has been floated.
What a Joke.
Jim ROCKS. :D
We The Unvaxxed
Are Pissed, the Vaxxed
Should be Scared.
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Fixed it.
I’m not vaxxed and not pissed but it’s the vaxxed that should redirect their anger at those who lied to them and forced them to have dubious medical intervention.
As usually lawyers will make out like bandits and taxpayers footing the bill.
although no one has yet directly connected those to the mRNA shots.
BECAUSE YOU REFUSE TO LOOK!!
It’s not science, it’s witchdoctors running around telling us we just don’t understand the juju.
I remember you “questioning my character” on a different thread about organ transplants a few days ago because I used the word purebloods. Is this an obsession with you. Nobody but you seems to care what words Hitler and the Nazis used, because they realize we are using the word pureblood in a different context. No one wants to kill or incinerate the vaxed. Purebloods ( I’m just using the word now to piss you off), in most countries were unfairly discriminated against, many losing their livlihoods and everthing they had. People testing positive with the virus with a totally flawed test in some countries were put in special camps against their will. They were held there by force even though they showed no symptoms of Covid. It’s time for you to get your head out of your ass and take a good look at who the real Nazis are.
We’ve All been lied to and
We’ve All lost the Freedoms in the
Name of ‘Following the SCIENCE’
Which until Wuhan was;
Isolate the Sick,
Protect the Vulnerable and
Get Back to Work.
.
We’ve All been Victimized.
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Drs. that know a lot about mRNA and the China Virus(19) have almost universally identified it as being an awful lot like AIDS/HIV in the way it affects the human body. One should remember back in the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and beyond, how the AIDS “victim” would spend 6 mo. to a year after exposure for AIDS symptoms to appear. Then up to 5/6 yrs till death.
Now, with the “vaccine” you only have to wait from minutes to years till something happens. The list of “somethings” is long, ranging from SADS to death, to neurological damage, blood clots, to ....
And a commonality between AIDS and the “vaccine” is their blood cannot be shared with those whose blood is not contaminated.
Yep. Dying is an automatic disqualification.
The #1 duty of a First Officer is to handle the scenario of a Captain being incapacitated. If they don’t have good training on what to do in that scenario, then they have no business sitting in the First Officer chair when they get into an airplane. It sounds like this First Officer performed well in this scenario.
It is a procedure never used in humans at such a scale. Injecting molecules into people that can force cells to make a foreign antigenic protein is definitely problematic.
An excursion into a college textbook on the topic of mRNA commerce and biological pathways in cells would point that out. Anyone knowing the history of pharmacy or medicine will attest to the fact that many meds or medical procedures adopted as successful at first sometimes prove themselves to be dangerous or unnecessary. ROUTINE (not the necessary) tonsillectomy, back surgery, or prostatectomy come to mind. Diuretics containing mercury is an example of drugs which turned out to be quite dangerous.
To mandate any therapeutic intervention is not a normal medical practice for the above reasons.
That an experimental mRNA cell therapy was turned loose on the public, WITHOUT the 7 year FDA normal testing, with data hidden from the public.......
Ay carumba
“Captain incapacitation is practiced every check ride, in the sim and actual”
No, it’s not practiced on every check ride. There is no FAA requirement to do this under CFR 121 or CFR 135
9) Will an autopsy be checking for the huge blood clotting that many Embalmers were reporting a few months ago all over the Country ?
ATC kept asking him if they should send paramedics and he kept gently brushing them aside.
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