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Just spotted this on Yahoo News. I just love it when the PR people get involved and start to spin::

The pilot of a Continental Airlines flight became ill after takeoff and was later pronounced dead <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> after the plane made an emergency landing Saturday, a company spokeswoman said.

The 210 passengers on the flight, which departed from Houston, were never in danger and the co-pilot landed the plane safely, Continental spokeswoman Macky Osorio said.

The airline said only that the pilot suffered a "serious medical problem." <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />Continental believes the pilot died of natural causes, Osorio said. The pilot's name was not released.

Death sounds kinda serious to me.... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Don

I'm not dead yet!

Yup, Death is pretty serious to the person doing the dying. How ever those folks mentioned in the will may not be of a like mind.
Jim

Don, proably in the FAA handbook under the category: Terms for Use To Ensure Pilot Error as result of accident, LOL!!!

Guess that is why the FAA will never let the airlines switch to only having one pilot.

Death is not serious if you are a christen. just the next step<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

With only 1 pilot, we'd be looking at over 200 people dead instead of 1. Keep both seats full.

Dick

Some of you folks will live to see the day when there are NO pilots in the front end. Capability to do this has existed for quite some time now, but there are infrastructure issues and perhaps a reluctance by some to board such a flight.

Vance Havner once said, "Nobody wants to get on a plane and hear the announcement, 'Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. We're going to try something new today.'"

no, death is the result of a serious medical condition.

Isn't death sort of the absence of a medical condition?

Death is the inevitable result of our being born, life being pretty much a terminal condition. As such, I wouldn't say that death is a serious medical condition, it is a normal occurrence.

Everyone dies of cardiac arrest, no matter what. The heart is what stops beating and then everything dies after. He probably suffered a heart attack, then died once they got onto the ground. I am sure he was in tremendous pain.

I had a gentleman a couple months ago. He was coming off the litter/ambulance bed from so much pain. his blood pressure was in the 90s and he had already taken an ASA that morning, so we could not give him any meds. Poor guy suffered the whole time and there was nothing we could do about it. Having a heart attack that leads to cardiac arrest is probably some of the worst pain anyone could be in. I cannot imagine anyone trying to land a plane during such a time.

Of course, it very well could have been a PE , now that I htink about it. Being on a plane for several hours could do that.