A woman believes her father could still be alive if Air Canada diverted a 16-hour flight the couple was on when the elderly man began suffering a medical emergency.
Shanu Pande said he should have “banged the cockpit” to demand the crew land the plane going from India to Canada when his 83-year-old father began having chest and back pain, vomiting and uncontrolled bowel movements, according to CBC . .
“He was deteriorating in front of my eyes,” Pande said of his father Harish Pant, who was flying to Canada after obtaining permanent residency.
About seven hours after taking off from Delhi in September, the elderly man began experiencing medical problems, prompting Pande to plead with the cabin crew to land the plane somewhere in Europe so he could go to a hospital, the outlet reported. .
But the crew rejected that request, he alleged, and the plane was in the air for nine more hours before landing in Montreal, its intended destination.
Paramedics treated him there, but he died in the hospital from a “suspected heart attack,” which is dead heart tissue.
The grieving daughter is upset that Air Canada didn’t divert the plane when her father started having problems. Shanu Pande
“I should have hit the cabin,” he told CBC. “Why did he have to suffer like this?”
Additionally, he told Business Insider that crew members did not help his father during the flight because they did not give him medication or monitor his blood pressure.
Air Canada strongly denied Pande’s version of events.
Air Canada told People it expresses its “deepest condolences” to the family but “rejects any claim that it was responsible for the customer’s death.”
The 83-year-old man died after the plane landed in Canada. Shanu Pande
“We can confirm that throughout the flight in question the Air Canada crew appropriately followed procedures for dealing with medical events on board and provided continuous care to the passenger, including relocating him to the business cabin so that he could fully recline,” the statement said. airline, adding in consultation with ground-to-air medical staff, diversion was not recommended.
“The individual was conscious upon arrival, where we had arranged for paramedics to meet the aircraft,” the airline also said. “Unfortunately, shortly after arrival, the passenger passed away while he was being treated by paramedics.”
Air Canada defended itself against the accusations. REUTERS
After her loved one’s death, Pande told Business Insider that crew members tried to comfort her, but she had no interest in their sympathies.
“I told them to stay away from me,” Pande told the outlet.
“I said, ‘You said it wasn’t a life-threatening emergency… but look what you’ve done to my dad.’”
He is reportedly taking legal action against Air Canada.
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