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Aeroflot A332 over Atlantic on Oct 8th 2009, medical emergency refused by USA
The Aviation Herald ^ | Saturday, Oct 10th 2009 | Simon Hradecky

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.


TOPICS: Cuba; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aeroflot; airlines; cuba; jfkairport
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To: 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.


21 posted on 10/11/2009 7:41:24 PM PDT by MikeGranby
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To: MikeGranby

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.


22 posted on 10/11/2009 8:04:36 PM PDT by FrogMom (No such thing as an honest democrat!)
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To: MediaMole

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.


23 posted on 10/11/2009 8:36:37 PM PDT by jwparkerjr (God Bless America, and wake us up while you're about it!)
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To: traumer

Nope.

http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2009/10/berlin-burns-fix-with-frequent.html#readfurther


24 posted on 10/11/2009 8:55:07 PM PDT by AliVeritas (Lord forgive me... we know he's anti-Christ. The pride and chaos get him the pit again.)
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