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Air France: Heart Attack Diverts Plane


Pictured: An Air France Boeing 777-328/ER
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Contact photographer Sean Mowatt

What: Air France Boeing 777 en route from Paris to Singapore
Where: Henri Coanda Airport, Bucharest
When: Oct 7th 2009
Who: 307 passengers and 18 crew
Why: When a passenger suffered a heart attack on the plane, and the flight diverted to Bucharest where he was removed from the plane, the rest of the passengers debarked. It was determined he died of the heart attack. There is no mention if the flight had (or used) an on board a defib machine.

The flight could not continue because of a technical problem. The other passengers stayed in the terminal or were put up in hotels and rerouted.

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