Pilot of a Boeing aircraft suddenly dies during a flight!

OMSK, Russia (PNN) - September 20, 2022 - A Boeing flight commander died suddenly during a flight from Novokuznetsk to St Petersburg in Russia on Sunday, according to a report from the Russian news outlet, RIA Novosti.

According to reports, the man - whose identity has not been revealed - felt ill during the flight.

The co-pilot had to make an emergency landing at Omsk airport but the commander died before he could receive medical assistance.

“The resuscitation ambulance team arrived at the airport ten minutes before the plane landed. The team stated the death of the pilot before providing medical assistance,” the Ministry of Health of the Omsk Region said.

The terrible incident took place around 7:40 in the evening (Moscow time).

There has been an increase in the number of times that pilots have fainted or fallen asleep in flight.

Another Jet2 pilot reportedly fainted at 30,000 feet, prompting the plane to make an emergency landing in Greece last month.

“One fuming passenger claimed the ordeal had delayed the start of (his family’s) holiday by eight hours. He said his family of four was given a €15 euro voucher each which, covered a “basic meal,” the outlet reported. According to passengers, Jet2 does not compensate for delays due to medical emergencies.

The flight was rerouted as a “precautionary measure,” according to a representative from Jet2.

“Flight LS1239 from Birmingham to Antalya diverted to Thessaloniki Airport as a precautionary measure on Tuesday (August 23) due to one of the pilots feeling unwell. A replacement crew was flown to Thessaloniki so that we could get customers on their way to Antalya that same evening,” a Jet2 spokesman said.

“We communicated this to our customers as soon as possible, and our teams worked extremely hard to look after everyone. We would like to apologize to anyone affected by this unforeseen delay,” added the spokesman.

Commercial aviation news site Aviation Herald reported that two pilots on a flight from Sudan to Ethiopia last month had apparently fallen asleep and missed their landing.

“The incident took place on board an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-800 en route from Khartoum to Addis Ababa, the report said, “when the pilots fell asleep” and “the aircraft continued past the top of descent.”

Last June, an air traffic controller who worked in the management in Madrid, Spain, anonymously tipped his wife that there were 28 unscheduled emergency landings in May 2022 due to medical issues associated with people losing consciousness compared to only one or two in a normal year.

Due to the whistleblower’s fear of losing his job, we were unable to verify this information.

“Our source and her colleagues at work had discretely discussed the total numbers of un-scheduled emergency landings due to medical issues that involved unconsciousness as having been ~25-30+ per month since the beginning of 2022 vs. a total normal figure of ~1-2 per YEAR across all Spanish airports during pre-vax roll-out years.”