CORONA Pilot Dies Suddenly After Collapsing Shortly After Takeoff from Chicago Airport

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Pilot Dies Suddenly After Collapsing Shortly After Takeoff from Chicago Airport (AUDIO)

Reports surfaced on Tuesday that a recently hired Envoy Air pilot had collapsed and been pronounced dead shortly after taking off from Chicago O’Hare International Airport en route to Columbus, Ohio. Captain Patrick Ford of the American Eagle Embraer 175 passed out at the controls at 7:59 p.m...
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Pilot Dies Suddenly After Collapsing Shortly After Takeoff from Chicago Airport (AUDIO)​


JIM HOFT

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Reports surfaced on Tuesday that a recently hired Envoy Air pilot had collapsed and been pronounced dead shortly after taking off from Chicago O’Hare International Airport en route to Columbus, Ohio.

Captain Patrick Ford of the American Eagle Embraer 175 passed out at the controls at 7:59 p.m. on Saturday, November 19, shortly after the plane had taken off from the runway, Alex Berenson reported.
A recording of the incident shows that Captain Ford was talking to an air traffic controller when his voice suddenly stopped.
ENY3556: Tower, Envoy 3556…

A few seconds later, the controller asked anxiously, “Can I help you?”
“…3556, we need to return, captain is incapacitated,” Ford’s copilot, Captain Brandon Hendrickson, told air traffic control about 30 minutes after take-off from the airport.

Captain Hendrickson took control of the plane and managed to land safely.
Ford was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. His cause of death was not immediately released.
The vice president of flight operations at Envoy Air released a statement following the incident.

“Despite heroic efforts to revive him, Captain in training, Patrick Ford, passed away,” Ric Wilson, the Vice President of Flight Operations at Envoy Air, said in a message to fellow pilots. “We are deeply saddened by this loss.”

“Sincere thanks to Line Check Airman, Captain Brandon Hendrickson, for his leadership and professionalism in the safe handling of his aircraft, passengers, and crew,” Wilson continued.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has opened an investigation regarding the incident.
Watch the video below:
FAA is now investigating after the captain of American Eagle (Envoy) Flight 3556 became incapacitated shortly after taking off from ORD Saturday night. The captain died later at a hospital. The copilot safely landed the plane at ORD. 57 passengers & crewpic.twitter.com/pcvFIuUCM9
— Kris Van Cleave (@krisvancleave) November 22, 2022
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The number of pilots who have passed out or fainted while flying, or who have died as a result, has increased in recent months.
A Boeing flight commander died suddenly during a flight from Novokuznetsk to St Petersburg in Russia in September, according to a report from a Russian news outlet.
The co-pilot had to make an emergency landing at Omsk airport, but the commander died before he could receive medical assistance.

“The resuscitation ambulance team arrived at the airport ten minutes before the plane landed. The team stated the death of the pilot before providing medical assistance,” the Ministry of Health of the Omsk Region said.

Another pilot reportedly “fainted” at 30,000
feet, prompting the plane to make an emergency landing in Greece last August.
“One fuming passenger claimed the ordeal had delayed the start of their holiday by eight hours. They said their family of four was given a €15 euro voucher each which covered a “basic meal,” the outlet reported. According to passengers, Jet2 does not compensate for delays due to medical emergencies.
The flight was rerouted as a “precautionary measure,” according to a representative from Jet2.

Commercial aviation news site Aviation Herald reported that two pilots on a flight from Sudan to Ethiopia last August had apparently fallen asleep and missed their landing.

“The incident took place on board an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-800 en route from Khartoum to Addis Ababa, the report said, “when the pilots fell asleep” and “the aircraft continued past the top of descent,” according to CNN.

A reader reached out to Gateway Pundit last June 2022, saying that an air traffic controller who worked in the management in Madrid, Spain, anonymously tipped his wife that there were 28 unscheduled emergency landings in May 2022 due to medical issues associated with people losing consciousness compared to only one or two in a normal year. However, the Gateway Pundit was unable to verify this information.

“Our source and her colleagues at work had discretely discussed the total numbers of un-scheduled, emergency landings due to medical issues that involved un-consciousness as having been ~25-30+ per month since the beginning of 2022 vs. a total normal figure of ~1-2 per YEAR across all Spanish airports during pre-vax roll-out years.”
 
Hfcomms

Hfcomms

EN66iq
And unfortunately those that decided or were coerced into getting the shot just aren’t hurting themselves. For every crewed aircraft there is also a single pilot airplane, locomotive engineer not to mention that 18 wheeler coming at you in the oncoming lane. Vaxxidents are trending.
 
Illini Warrior

Illini Warrior

Illini Warrior
??? - 30 minutes out from O'Hare and they returned there for a med emergency - that's strange as hell >>> there's all kinds of faster landings in that radius area to the east - passed over Gary Int'l and almost to South Bend about then ......
 
Blacknarwhal

Blacknarwhal

Let's Go Brandon!
Illini Warrior said:
??? - 30 minutes out from O'Hare and they returned there for a med emergency - that's strange as hell >>> there's all kinds of faster landings in that radius area to the east - passed over Gary Int'l and almost to South Bend about then ......
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I wouldn't want to land in Gary on a bet. But maybe the other captain thought it'd be a good idea so fewer questions would be asked. Press probably won't get a lot of access in Mayor Grady's town.
 
Hfcomms

Hfcomms

EN66iq
Firebird said:
Boy, this is a warm fuzzy of a thought for future flying!
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At least with a crew the chances of both being incapacitated at the same time are remote but if it’s at a critical juncture during takeoff or landing and the pilot in command has an incident the other pilot has to react instantly.
 
Red Baron

Red Baron

Paleo-Conservative
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I was just thinking that pilots need to certify their health more often than other transportation occupations.

Thus I wonder why so many health issues would escape being detected?
 
Hfcomms

Hfcomms

EN66iq
Red Baron said:
I was just thinking that pilots need to certify their health more often than other transportation occupations.

Thus I wonder why so many health issues would escape being detected?
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There is hardly anything more thorough than a class 1 flight physical that Airline Transport Pilot rated flyers have to endure. If the pilot is older than 40 that certification is only good for six months.

hxxps://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-D/part-67

(replace xx with tt)
 
Griz3752

Griz3752

Retired, practising Curmudgeon
Good to know Airlines haven't asked to eliminate copilot in a cost cutting effort.

Of course, cost cutting is usually driven by profit preservation, not consumer affordability
 
K

ktrapper

Veteran Member
Pretty much evident he didn’t die while working out or shoveling 6 feet of snow in Buffalo. Must have been reading the latest vaxx disinformation on his phone and that got him.
 
Cacheman

Cacheman

Ultra MAGA!
Griz3752 said:
Good to know Airlines haven't asked to eliminate copilot in a cost cutting effort.

Of course, cost cutting is usually driven by profit preservation, not consumer affordability
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Published two days ago...

fortune.com

Airlines want you to get comfortable with flying without a co-pilot

Pilots—and fliers—are not convinced. “When things go awry, they go awry fairly quickly”.
fortune.com fortune.com


Airlines want you to get comfortable with flying without a co-pilot. Pilots—and fliers—are not convinced​


Angus Whitley, Bloomberg

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Airlines and regulators are pushing to have just one pilot in the cockpit of passenger jets instead of two. It would lower costs and ease pressure from crew shortages, but placing such responsibility on a single person at the controls is unsettling for some.

Over 40 countries including Germany, the UK and New Zealand have asked the United Nations body that sets aviation standards to help make single-pilot flights a safe reality. The European Union Aviation Safety Agency has also been working with planemakers to determine how solo flights would operate and preparing rules to oversee them. EASA said such services could start in 2027.

The plan doesn’t sit well with pilots. It’s a hard sell for passengers, too.

Tony Lucas, an Airbus SE A330 captain for Qantas Airways Ltd. and president of the Australian & International Pilots Association, is concerned that a lone pilot might be overwhelmed by an emergency before anyone else has time to reach the cockpit to help.

“The people going down this route aren’t the people who fly jets every day,” Lucas said. “When things go awry, they go awry fairly quickly.”

That’s what happened on board Air France Flight 447 on its way to Paris from Rio de Janeiro on June 1, 2009. With the plane cruising at 35,000 feet (10,670 meters) over the Atlantic Ocean and the captain resting in the cabin, the two co-pilots in the cockpit started receiving faulty speed readings, likely from frozen detector tubes outside the aircraft.

By the time the captain got to the cockpit 90 seconds later, the plane was in an aerodynamic stall from which it never recovered. Less than three minutes later, it hit the water, killing all 228 people on board.

Lucas, a check and training captain, also worries about the lost opportunities to mentor junior pilots if flight crew are working increasingly on their own.

Change Could Come Soon​

The planned changes bring many challenges. It’s not yet clear what would happen if a lone pilot collapsed or started flying erratically. Automation, technology and remote assistance from the ground would somehow have to replace the expertise, safety and immediacy of a second pilot.

Aviation has been moving toward this point for decades. In the 1950s, commercial aircraft cockpits were more crowded, typically with a captain, first officer or co-pilot, a flight engineer, a navigator and a radio operator. Advances in technology gradually made the last three positions redundant.

“We are potentially removing the last piece of human redundancy from the flight deck,” Janet Northcote, EASA’s head of communications, wrote in an email.

One condition for single-pilot operations is that it is at least as safe as with two people at the controls, according to an EU request to the International Civil Aviation Organization, the UN aviation standards body.

“The psychological barriers are probably harder than the technological barriers,” Boeing Co. Southeast Asia President Alexander Feldman said at a Bloomberg business summit in Bangkok last week. “The technology is there for single pilots, it’s really about where the regulators and the general public feel comfortable.”

A first step would be to allow solo piloting when aircraft are cruising, typically a less busy period than takeoff and landing. That would allow the other pilot to rest in the cabin, rather than staying in the cockpit to help fly the plane.

By alternating breaks in this manner, a two-person crew could fly longer routes without the help — and expense — of an extra pilot.

Ultimately, flying could be fully automated with minimal oversight from a pilot in the cockpit. The system could detect if the pilot for whatever reason became incapacitated and then land the plane by itself at a preselected airport, according to EASA. Such flights aren’t likely until well after 2030, it said.

Assessing the Need​

The value of having two pilots up front was famously borne out on Jan. 15, 2009, when a US Airways plane struck a flock of geese shortly after takeoff and lost power in both engines. The captain, Chesley Sullenberger, and first officer Jeffrey Skiles together managed to land the Airbus A320 on the Hudson River. No one died. The incident became known as the the Miracle on the Hudson.

Nothing to date has proved safer than “a second rested, qualified, well-trained pilot physically present on the flight deck,” the International Federation of Air Line Pilots’ Associations told ICAO in a paper for its assembly last month.

“Commercial airline passengers absolutely expect and deserve two pilots in the cockpit,” said Joe Leader, chief executive officer of Apex, a New York-based aviation association that focuses on passengers’ experiences.

Transitioning to single-pilot operations could impact areas such as crew training and medical requirements, as well as mental health and job satisfaction, the UK Civil Aviation Authority said in an email.

The impact of flying alone, even just for a while, requires “detailed assessment,” said the authority, one of the regulators that contributed to the European paper for the ICAO assembly.
The International Coordinating Council of Aerospace Industries Associations, which represents planemakers worldwide, is urging ICAO to devise a roadmap for flights with one pilot at the controls during non-critical periods.

Airbus said in an email it is assessing how its planes might be flown by smaller crews. For now, the planemaker is collaborating with airlines and regulators to see if two pilots could safely replace three-person crews on long-haul flights.

Carriers are looking into single-pilot flights, including China Eastern Airlines Corp., which suffered a fatal crash in March. A pilot at the Shanghai-based airline co-authored research last month that assessed how takeoff and landing tasks could be automated or completed with the help from a ground station.

EASA said it is aware of concerns about solo flying and that addressing them is part of the process.

“These concepts will not be implemented until the aviation community is comfortable that operations will be at least as safe as they are today,” Northcote said.
 
West

West

Senior
What probably happened was once they got to a high elevation the pilot thought he had to burp and pounded on his chest to make the burp come out.

It's a one in a million chance, but at that elevation and a thump on his chest at exactly the wrong time, it caused his heart to stop.

Nothing here.

:D
 
Doc1

Doc1

Has No Life - Lives on TB
FWIW I have flown - and often had to fly - on everything from singe engine/single pilot puddle jumpers to 747s. I enjoy flying on the little single-engine planes and believe I could probably safely (which only means not killing myself) land one myself if the pilot expired. I've been in a lot of the small planes where the pilot showed me the basics and let me fly. Those experiences and some time in flight simulators leads me to believe I could probably get a small plane on the ground in one piece... or at least not in enough pieces to get me killed.

Still, having two pilots on larger aircraft is a very important safety measure. When you glance into the cockpit of a large plane and see two pilots, understand that the copilot is fully qualified to fly the plane. Actually, in some rarer cases, the copilot is more qualified than the captain.

Entering the cockpit of a modern Boeing or Airbus is nothing like being in a little Cessna 172. The airliner's cockpits are like being in a complicated, indecipherable spacecraft compared to the small planes.

The majority of vax-sickened pilots will be weeded out by flight physicals before they take to the skies, but medicals won't catch all of them. I think we'll likely see more episodes like the one in the OP, where a pilot dies in flight and the copilot has to assume command.

Eventually, the number of vax-related deaths in the general population will become so overwhelming that TPTB will no longer be able to deny the problem.

Best
Doc
 
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