MLG ON FINAL APCH HAS CALL FROM CABIN ATTENDANT REGARDING SICK PAX IN AISLE. DECIDE TO LAND.

Date: 1993-12 · Aircraft: Medium Large Transport; Low Wing; 2 Turbojet Eng · Phase: approach

Anomalies: deviation-discrepancy-procedural-far|other-unspecified

Synopsis

MLG ON FINAL APCH HAS CALL FROM CABIN ATTENDANT REGARDING SICK PAX IN AISLE. DECIDE TO LAND.

Narrative

FLT WAS ON FINAL APCH IN LNDG CONFIGN AND WAS CLRED TO LAND. CALL FROM FLT ATTENDANT TO ADVISE US THAT A PAX HAD SUDDENLY TAKEN ILL AND HAD APPARENTLY COLLAPSED AND WAS LYING IN THE AISLE. RATHER THAN TRYING TO PLACE PAX BACK IN SEAT AND POSSIBLY RISK FURTHER INJURY; I DECIDED TO CONTINUE APCH AND LAND THE ACFT AFTER REQUESTING PARAMEDICS MEET THE ACFT AT THE GATE. THE PARAMEDICS ARRIVED AT THE GATE ALMOST IMMEDIATELY AND ASSISTED THE ILL PAX. THE ALTERNATIVE OF EXECUTING A GAR; HAVING THE FLT ATTENDANTS ATTEMPT TO PLACE THE PAX BACK IN HIS SEAT; AND PREPARE FOR ANOTHER LNDG ATTEMPT WOULD; I FELT; HAVE SERVED NO SAFETY PURPOSE AND WOULD DEFINITELY HAVE DELAYED THE PAX FROM RECEIVING PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL CARE. SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION FROM ACN 260289: THE CAPT WAS FLYING AND I ANSWERED THE INTERPHONE. I ASKED THE FLT ATTENDANT IF THE PAX COULD GET INTO A SEAT. SHE SAID HE HAD SAID IF HE MOVED HE WOULD PASS OUT. I TOLD TWR WE HAD AN ILL PAX AND REQUESTED PARAMEDICS. WE LANDED WITH THE PAX IN THE AISLE.

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