British Airways Leads the World in Flight Attendant Sudden Collapses and Deaths in 2023
Three cases, two flight attendants died on duty, one collapsed inflight and survived
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An airline has been rocked by the sudden death of two flight attendants; one while on the plane and another in a hotel during a stopover. There were no reported underlying health issues for either flight attendant.
Dec. 23, 2023 (British Airways Flight BA184 EWR-LHR)
A 52 year old British Airways flight attendant was found dead in his hotel room on Dec. 23, 2023 in between flights.
He failed to report for duty and his flight from Newark to London Heathrow was cancelled as a result.
Dec. 31, 2023 (British Airways Flight BA31 LHR-HKG)
A 52 year old British Airways flight attendant tragically collapsed as the busy 13-hour flight from London Heathrow to Hong Kong prepared to depart.
Travelers were reportedly in their seats and the doors were locked when the flight attendant, who was not identified, crumpled to the floor in the back of the plane.
A passenger trained in first aid tried to save the man as the pilot urgently called for medics, but he died at the scene, the Sun reported.
“Sadly, despite the best efforts of our crew, a patient was pronounced dead at the scene,” London Ambulance Service said in a statement to Metro UK.
The flight was delayed until the following day with different pilots and crew in charge, the Sun reported.
May 20, 2023 – British Airways Flight BA886 flight attendant (stewardess) collapsed on flight from Heathrow, London to Bucharest, Romania, forcing captain to divert and land the plane in Budapest, Hungary.
A British Airways stewardess has collapsed during a flight from London to Romania, forcing the pilot to change course.
The ‘medical emergency’ – which took place on Saturday evening during the 170-passenger Airbus A320 flight from Heathrow to Bucharest – forced the captain to stop in Budapest to seek critical care for the cabin-crew member.
The flight was then delayed for a further 21 hours as the stewardess was escorted to a hospital in the Hungarian capital by a fellow crew member.
BA confirmed that she was in full recovery as of yesterday, despite now-discounted fears from staff that she was having a heart attack.
A BA source told The Sun: ‘It seemed very serious at the time and the captain had no option but to divert.
‘She was quite a young woman and was clearly very unwell and a medical emergency was declared.
‘Another crew member went with her to hospital as soon as the plane landed but the delay meant that the limit on the number of hours staff had worked was exceeded.
‘The plane was unable to resume its journey and all passengers and crew were forced to overnight in Budapest.
‘Hundreds of passengers waiting for the plane in Bucharest for a return flight to Heathrow were also delayed by almost a whole day and also had to be found hotels for the night.
‘It’s caused an enormous amount of disruption for passengers left stranded.
‘But the wellbeing of the stewardess had to be put first in the circumstances.’
The airline has declined to reveal the identity of the sick woman as well as what caused her to collapse.
Flight attendants who collapsed in past year:
June 21, 2023 – American Airlines flight attendant Carol Wright collapsed at the early stage of Flight from Venice to Philadelphia International Airport (VCE-PHL) on June 21, 2023. her colleagues attempted to perform CPR. The pilots for the flight made the decision to declare an emergency and divert to Dublin Airport (DUB).
Dec. 21, 2022 – Air Albania flight attendant Greta Dyrmishi, age 24, died suddenly in-flight after plane landed in the UK (Dec. 21, 2022). A post-mortem found that the 24-year-old had died from sudden adult death syndrome (SADS).