Tangri
29th January 2016, 04:38
• The American Airlines flight turned around when close to Keflavik, Iceland.
• Flight attendant said to have fainted and five other cabin crew members ill.
• Two passengers onboard Boeing 777-300 also began feeling unwell mid-air.
• Plane bound for Los Angeles declared emergency and returned to London.
• Mystery surrounds why passengers' luggage was confiscated for "checks".
• Aviation expert said plane's air quality could be reason why people got sick.
What caused a flight attendant to collapse and seven others to take ill during a mid-air drama above the Atlantic?
Panicked passengers told of the scary moment a plea went out for any doctors onboard before the captain of the American Airlines flight declared a "medical emergency" and returned to London.
Emergency vehicles were scrambled and, once on the ground, the aborted Los Angeles-bound flight was escorted to the Heathrow terminal before passengers were told to remain in their seats.
It has since emerged that those onboard were not allowed to disembark, nor paramedics allowed on to treat those unwell, until tests had been carried out for any 'elevated levels of substances' in the cabin air - analysis that yielded no answers.
All luggage was then confiscated for 'checks' by American Airlines and Heathrow authorities, but passengers were kept in the dark as to the motive for doing so.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11581233
http://www.theweek.co.uk/69025/american-airlines-flight-aa109-turns-back-over-mystery-illness
• Flight attendant said to have fainted and five other cabin crew members ill.
• Two passengers onboard Boeing 777-300 also began feeling unwell mid-air.
• Plane bound for Los Angeles declared emergency and returned to London.
• Mystery surrounds why passengers' luggage was confiscated for "checks".
• Aviation expert said plane's air quality could be reason why people got sick.
What caused a flight attendant to collapse and seven others to take ill during a mid-air drama above the Atlantic?
Panicked passengers told of the scary moment a plea went out for any doctors onboard before the captain of the American Airlines flight declared a "medical emergency" and returned to London.
Emergency vehicles were scrambled and, once on the ground, the aborted Los Angeles-bound flight was escorted to the Heathrow terminal before passengers were told to remain in their seats.
It has since emerged that those onboard were not allowed to disembark, nor paramedics allowed on to treat those unwell, until tests had been carried out for any 'elevated levels of substances' in the cabin air - analysis that yielded no answers.
All luggage was then confiscated for 'checks' by American Airlines and Heathrow authorities, but passengers were kept in the dark as to the motive for doing so.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11581233
http://www.theweek.co.uk/69025/american-airlines-flight-aa109-turns-back-over-mystery-illness