Are you in perfect health?? If not, I wouldn't suggest flying with American Airlines!!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080225/ap_on_re_us/flight_death;_ylt=AmhclXLxRgslasSr9PdikhJH2ocA
In the above story Carine Desir, a passenger on an American Airlines flight, experienced difficulty breathing. When she asked the flight attendant for oxygen she was denied it. Twice. (I wonder if someone who had the luxury of flying first class would have been denied their request for oxygen..probably not.)
When the attendant finally tried to administer oxygen from a portable tank and mask, the tank was empty. When doctors and nurses who were aboard this flight tried to administer oxygen from a second tank, they found that one too was empty. Two oxygen tanks on board and they are both empty??? Is there not some sort of law about this type of thing?? OSHA or something should be on this!!
After a nurse was unsuccessful with CPR, a "box," possibly a defibrillator, also was applied but didn't function effectively. You've got to be kidding me?? With all the money they saved on not refilling the oxygen tanks you would have thought they could get a defibrillator that worked!!
NEEDLESS to say, Desir (who was only 44), was pronounced dead by one of the doctors on board.
As if terrorist hijackings and freak accident plane crashes didn't scare me enough.
This family will definetly be getting paid!!
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I bet all their oxygen tanks are full now.
I sure hope so!
But then again, after the lawsuit hits (which I'm 99.99% sure there will be one)there might not even be an airline left to worry about the oxygen tanks.
That is really scary. Dont they know that if someone is having trouble breathing, and on a plane they are probably having a panic attack. The oxygen is needed to calm them as well as circulate. You know your body and when something is wrong then, something is wrong. They should have trusted her, especially since she was a nurse, and treated her in time to save her life.
Great post Kristen P., and Danielle M., I agree with you she was a nurse who realized she needed help. Perhaps they knew from the beging that they didn't have any oxygen in the tanks to start with. Take could explain their hesitation, never the less the airplane it self is equipped with over head oxygen mask in case of emergcy. One canonly wonder like Kristen said if she were a first class passanger, instead of a woman returning from Hatti.
the link I used to write this blog has been updated since I wrote it. I didn't realize she was a nurse! that's even worse!
The article that was up sunday said both tanks were empty too. I don't like this whole updating AFTER I write the blog!
It happens K.P., but I have your back.
The airline is claiming that she died of natural causes and that she received professional medical help on board the flight. Too bad there was no ******g oxygen in the tanks.
Oh yeah, Desir had heart disease. 44 is not young for someone with heart disease.
Josh J., 44 is young even for a person with heart disease, besides they say just about everyone has heart disease.
All I know is that I'm only going to ask ONCE for some oxygen. And let that tank be empty!!! Ya know, if I'm not dead by then!
Why didn't someone give her mouth to mouth?
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