Captain taken ill on flight
Discussion
Just a musing really but never had anything like this before.
We were on a Thompson flight to Menorca 2 Saturdays ago and just over the top of Le Mans, maybe 40 mins in from Gatwick, heard a strange call to the cabin crew to get to the Flightdeck, the aircraft then pulled a full 180 turn and the announcement came over that 1 of the crew was unwell and we would be returning to Gatwick.
Spoke to the FO (he let all the kids play about upfront while we waited for a new captain to arrive when back on the tarmac) and he said he's never had it in 15 years of flying, the Captain was fine when he started the journey, but started having stomach pains after takeoff so we turned back.
Nothing more than a general wondering but thought it must be fairly rare to have to turn back, the ambulance/paramedics were waiting and the Captain walked off and seemed to be ok.
Any Pilots or aviation chaps had anything similar?
We were on a Thompson flight to Menorca 2 Saturdays ago and just over the top of Le Mans, maybe 40 mins in from Gatwick, heard a strange call to the cabin crew to get to the Flightdeck, the aircraft then pulled a full 180 turn and the announcement came over that 1 of the crew was unwell and we would be returning to Gatwick.
Spoke to the FO (he let all the kids play about upfront while we waited for a new captain to arrive when back on the tarmac) and he said he's never had it in 15 years of flying, the Captain was fine when he started the journey, but started having stomach pains after takeoff so we turned back.
Nothing more than a general wondering but thought it must be fairly rare to have to turn back, the ambulance/paramedics were waiting and the Captain walked off and seemed to be ok.
Any Pilots or aviation chaps had anything similar?
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