Comments on: Kin: Woman Who Died On Flight Was Ignored

American Airlines Disputes Account Of Man Who Blames Flight Attendant, Faulty Medical Devices

[Marie Zarankevich]

If she was ill, she needed to consult her physician before flying. I have to! That is not the airline''s responsibility. If you should not be flying, it is your own fault if you have problems due to pressure changes or altitude. Oxygen would not help much, in any case, if her problems were severe. People are very sloppy about their health, then blame others. Some nerve.

[barbaraf4]

Okay, this is how it works from now on. Have a terminal disease, book a flight, die on board and let your relatives file for damages. I guarantee it is cheaper than life insurance.

[lilvinnyb]

i can''t imagine no one would not TRY to assist. The DEFIB machine actually USES a faint heartbeat as a measure to begin working. If her heartbeats was too faint, it certainly would not work. Nothing was gonna save this person.

this family is looking for nothing but a lawsuit.

[oldpilot954]

I have a couple of comments about this in general. First, I wonder what the family member based his accusation on when he said that the tanks were empty? Was it the fact that they did not help? Did he look and see that the guage showed empty? Or what? I cannot imagine American Airlines operating a flight in which emergency equipment was inoperative because these tanks are there to allow flight crew to move around during a decompression emergency.
As for landing somewhere closer than Miami, without knowing exacly where the plane was we can''t say what landing sites were available. There is a lot of Alantic Ocean out there. Nassau might have been an option but nothing in the article would tell us that.

[jimmyc1955]

menmotoscutr - ok - lets double the costs of every flight to accommodate the costs of a doctor and nurse and equipment on board.

So passengers will fall off because they can''t afford to fly. Then thousands will loose jobs because airlines that are already in the red will go belly up.

Then you want subsidies to keep the jobs so we raise everybodys taxes.

Where exactly do you think that money comes from???

[jimmyc1955]

RANEKNIGHT - So - have you heard of this invention called and airport?? And at these airports they have runways. And these runways in most municiple airports are way to SMALL for a commerical passenger jet to land on. So big airports have big runways - little airports little runways.

So - flying from Haiti to the US - where exactly in all that blue wide ocean would you recommend they set down on???

Sometimes your powers of reasoning are pretty astonishing.

Lets put a doctor on every flight, that should keep the ticket prices down. Lucky airlines dont let chimps or joyous88 run their business or no one could afford to fly. Posted by jwind11 at 07:39 PM : Feb 25, 2008-----------------

At last someone who understands the real crisis here. Ticket prices are our main concern and keeping them down our main objective. No more free space in first class for corpses! Charge for the air used from the tanks, so much per breath. If a doctor is aboard and administers aid, charge the doctor for the space used to practice medicine, if an attendant refuses to give aid, charge the passenger for diagnostics, and if a priest administers the last rites while aboard the plane, assess a fee equal to the inheritance available to the church, and while we are at it, check into the possibility of charging that woman as excess baggage. jwind11 you are my kinda species.

[raneknight]

The thing that really gets to me is, just as soon as cpr was started the pilot should have set the plane down. It didn''t need to be in a big city, small cities have fine EMS and hospital personnel that could have done advanced life support on this lady. And yes, I am appalled at the heartlessness that some people show, but if it were a member of their family I think they would feel differently.

[tflhaiti]

I am a close friend to Carine''s Aunt who she visited while in Haiti.

The family was in shock and called the night of her death. The report of her cousin is true and accurate.
He even told us that it took a long time for the attendant to bring her water.

I stopped flying this flight on AA many years ago because of the rude and unattentive actions of the attendants toward the Haitians who make up the majority of these flights.

The family is still in deep grief and no one has even mentioned the possibility of lawsuit or retribution.

Just pure helplessness at the response of the staff of AA.

I hope that no one in this family ever reads the heartless assumptions of many of these comments.

It is a sad time we are in when people make rude and crass statements about an event that no one witnessed and the media sensationalizes a tragedy of this kind.

Yes, she may have died even with timely attention to her distress, but to accuse the relatives who miss her and loved her, as being people who see this as an "opportunity" to gain some kind of wealth is typical of Americans who have lost sight of the true meaning of life and death.

We, who are close to her family know the truth of what happened and in their time of grief the family deserves respect and time to heal before they will be accused of lying and seeking retribution.

[jwind11]

no one said that everyone around her was liable;

but if the airline could have saved her and did not, than they ARE liable,

a chimp could figure this one out

Posted by joyous88 at 07:08 PM : Feb 25, 2008

Brilliant statement: Lets put a doctor on every flight, that should keep the ticket prices down. Lucky airlines dont let chimps or joyous88 run their business or no one could afford to fly.