ABC News (Free subscription) | 03/13/2008
... report animals' deaths on commercial flights; last year there were 14, the DOT says. The death of Carine Desir on an American Airlines flight from Haiti to New York on Feb. 22 raised questions about how airlines handle medical emergencies. Desir's family has questioned whether the airline responded quickly enough with oxygen to save her. The airline says its own review of the...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 02/29/2008
Carine Desir is latest death on a plane, but pilots often won't stop flights or make emergency landings
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 02/27/2008
NEW YORK American Airlines defended its staff as professional and its equipment as sound Monday after a swift review of a passenger's in-flight death, despite her family's claims that the crew ignored her pleas until it was too late.
Carine Desir, 44, was pronounced dead Friday on a nearly full Haiti-to-New York flight by a pediatrician who said he tried to use the plane's defibrillator...
ac360blog (Free subscription) | 02/26/2008
The recent story of Carine Desir, a 44-year-old woman who died on an American Airlines flight from Haiti to New York, has a lot of people thinking: Could that happen to me? Well, it could. But it's not likely and there’s no reason to panic. What happened to Desir? She reportedly complained of not being able [...]
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 02/26/2008
Everyone agrees that an hour after American Airlines Flight 896 took off, Carine Desir started gasping desperately for breath. Desir's family says airline flight attendants didn't move quickly enough to help her and that lifesaving equipment was not working. (with video)
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 02/26/2008
American Airlines Inc. said Monday that its oxygen containers and heart defibrillator were working properly when doctors tried unsuccessfully to revive an ailing passenger on a flight from Haiti.An American spokesman denied that flight attendants unduly delayed getting medical treatment for Carine Desir, a 44-year-old Brooklyn woman who died Friday during a flight between Port-au-Prince...
The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 02/26/2008
The airline was reacting to allegations by family members of Carine Desir that the aircraft's oxygen equipment was empty. ...
Drudge Retort (Free subscription) | 02/25/2008
American Airlines has emailed a statement to the Drudge Retort denying that an ailing passenger was not given oxygen before she died on one of its flights. Carine Desir also was treated with a defibrillator, according to the airline.
who's your nanny? (Free subscription) | 02/25/2008
A 44-year-old woman died on an American Airlines flight last Friday after having trouble breathing [emphasis mine]. After the flight attendant refused to administer oxygen to [Carine] Desir, she became distressed, pleading, "Don't let me die," Oliver recalled. Other passengers...
Drudge Retort (Free subscription) | 02/25/2008
Struggling to breathe, American Airlines passenger Carine Desir died on an American Airlines flight after requesting oxygen, which a flight attendant twice refused to do, according to the woman's cousin said. "Don't let me die," the cousin, Antonio Oliver, recalled Desir saying. She died on the flight after oxygen tanks were empty.
Examiner (Free subscription) | 02/25/2008
Struggling to breathe, American Airlines passenger Carine Desir asked for oxygen, but a flight attendant twice refused her request, the woman's cousin said.
Miami Herlad (Free subscription) | 02/25/2008
Struggling to breathe, American Airlines passenger Carine Desir asked for oxygen, but a flight attendant twice refused her request, the woman's cousin said.
POE News (Free subscription) | 02/25/2008
An American Airlines passenger died after a flight attendant told her he couldn't give her any oxygen and then tried to help her with faulty equipment, including an empty oxygen tank, a relative said.The airline confirmed the flight death and said medical professionals had tried to save the passenger, Carine Desir, who was returning home to Brooklyn from Haiti.
Blowing San #1 (Free subscription) | 02/25/2008
... airline confirmed the flight death and said medical professionals had tried to save the passenger, Carine Desir, who was returning home to Brooklyn from Haiti. Desir, who had heart disease, died of natural causes, medical examiner's office spokeswoman Ellen Borakove said Sunday. Desir had complained of not feeling well and being very thirsty on the Friday flight from...
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skyccw
the airline is actually trying to make the statement that the flight crew checked their O2 tanks prior to departure!?! BS
anonymous - 02/26/2008