Baltimore: Airplane Emergency Landing Delay

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Washington Post

Cannot get this article to copy/paste. Summary: a female passenger on a flight suffered an apparent heart attack. The pilot declared emergency and asked for priority landing, but air traffic control delays caused a 19-minute wait for the airplane to land.

"Sources said the pilot was extremely upset, and that one investigator reported the pilot telling the controller: 'You did a good job. She's dead.'"

-- Rachel Gibson (rgibson@hotmail.com), May 26, 2000


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