AA defends response after in-flight death
American Airlines defended its response during an onboard crisis when a 44-year-old woman became short of breath and died moments later. The airline said the staff acted professionally during the episode and that the emergency medical equipment was not faulty as members of her family claimed. The Associated Press reports that Carine Desir was pronounced dead Friday on a nearly full Haiti-to-New York flight by a pediatrician who said he tried to use the plane’s defibrillator on her as she faded, but her pulse was already too weak for it to work.
The New York Daily News has the family’s side of the story, including comments from Desir’s 10-year-old son. “It’s hard to lose your mother when you’re 10,” little Dimitry Fontus sobbed in the family’s Lefferts Gardens apartment. “I loved her so much.”
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