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SIA could face legal action over heart attack incident
By Monica Kotwani | Posted: 17 April 2011 1802 hrs <LINK rel=image_src href="http://www.channelnewsasia.com/imagegallery/store/phpgFG32y.jpg">
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SINGAPORE : Singapore Airlines (SIA) could face legal action from a BBC radio presenter over the way it handled his medical condition during a flight in March.

According to a report in Britain's 'Daily Mail' on Sunday, Max Pearson was on a connecting flight from Singapore to London, having flown in from Tokyo.

He had been covering the Japan earthquake and tsunami for a week.

According to the report, not long after the plane took off, Mr Pearson suffered a heart attack.

The report said the cabin crew allegedly refused requests to divert the plane to the nearest hospital for him to receive medical attention.

Instead, the 51-year-old had to endure a 14-hour flight to London's Heathrow Airport on March 18.

He was rushed to a hospital and given emergency surgery.

The report said Mr Pearson was in hospital for over a week.

The report quoted Mr Pearson's colleagues as saying that he suffered long-term heart damage as a result of the incident.

The report also quoted a BBC source as saying that Mr Pearson was lucky to survive, as it appeared that a passenger who is a doctor attended to him during the flight.

"He says he asked for them to redirect him to hospital but it didn't happen. After that it was touch-and-go whether he was going to make the 14-hour flight, but amazingly he did," the BBC source was quoted as saying in the Daily Mail report.

"Max is still very poorly and is considering taking legal action against Singapore Airlines," the source added.

When contacted by MediaCorp on Sunday, an SIA spokesman said the airline is not able to comment on individual cases.

- CNA/ms

 

[cleareyes]

According to a report in Britain's 'Daily Mail' on Sunday, Max Pearson was on a connecting flight from Singapore to London, having flown in from Tokyo.

He had been covering the Japan earthquake and tsunami for a week.

According to the report, not long after the plane took off, Mr Pearson suffered a heart attack.

The report said the cabin crew allegedly refused requests to divert the plane to the nearest hospital for him to receive medical attention.

Instead, the 51-year-old had to endure a 14-hour flight to London's Heathrow Airport on March 18.

He was rushed to a hospital and given emergency surgery.

This is the sad thing about Singapore and goverment related companies, where people are over-reliance on SOPs, refuse to make decisions on their own and rather cover their own backside with no thoughts for others.

SQ's standard had fallen indeed to a level where an african airline would have been better.

 

[scroobal]

You will be surprised by the number of cases of this nature plus people with low threshold of pain, hypochondriacs and those with flight anxiety and accompanying breathing difficulties etc. All airlines at least reputable ones have strict and clear rules or else a lot of flights would be disrupted.

I can tell you this guy is not getting a penny.

If airlines are duty bound to divert for such things, the prices for the elderly, the infirm and those without an annual medical certification to fly will be at least 10 times the price that they are paying now.

This is the sad thing about Singapore and goverment related companies, where people are over-reliance on SOPs, refuse to make decisions on their own and rather cover their own backside with no thoughts for others.

SQ's standard had fallen indeed to a level where an african airline would have been better.

 

[Cestbon]

This case very hard to debate. If the pilot make the decision to divert the plane to nearest airport.
1. Who will pay for the extra cost>> fuel,parking,landing fee
2. Divert plane will delay flight average 2 hour. Some passenger will miss connecting flight. SIA will be sue...
3. Delay flight will cause ripple effect>> next flight same aircraft will be delay also.