Man dies on 'unbearably hot' flight

[drron]

There certainly is a lack of investigation by journalists.i have just done a quick search on flightstats-
Track Flight Status for (AF) Air France 256
The flight took off 15 minutes after scheduled departure time,so probably 10 minutes after for pushback.This backs up the Air france claim the plane left CDG 10 minutes late and not the quoted passenger who declared pax where in the extremely hot plane for 90 minutes at Paris.
After takeoff there is no way the temp remained at the claimed 35C with outside temps at altitude well below zero.The plane diverted to Bucharest because of the man's illness so conditions on the ground in Bucharest was responsible for the man's illness.
Now I read a report that i can no longer find that initially Romanian officials at first would not agree to the other pax deplaning and later when it was allowed herding them into a baggage area.I did find another news article that alluded to this-
Death flight passengers 'were abandoned' | News.com.au Top stories | News.com.au
It also now appears a replacement plane was sent to Bucharest because of the auxiliary power failure.So there are 2 separate stories here.
First an 85 yr old man gets sick then dies on a plane.Sad but it does happen all to often.
Second is that because of the diversion the other pax have endured a very stressful time made worse by the air con failure.But is it all AFs fault?Did Romanian authorities really deny pax the opportunity to deplane?Probably we will never know the true facts.

 

[pully]

This seems a not too uncommon eventuality. On domestic flights one can see that it would be fairly simple to let people out. On international flights, howeverm where you have to land in a different country to where you were headed you can run into some immigration issues. It is hard to know what options they had in Romania, but it may not have been feasible to let them off.

thanks for that answer.

a lot has been made about whether it was, bad reporting, qantas bashing etc.
as a traveller i want to know that whatever airline i fly with understands and acts in the best interests of its human cargo.
as i said previously i know flying is not what it was but surely there is still a duty of care to passengers?

holding passengers on a hot plane for 5-6 hours with no food or fluids is not acceptable.
we have to put up with a lot as it is in terms of treatment before boarding, re security measures etc. i know some are necessary but often staff are loud and rude and overly officious.

we are not criminals and should not be treated in this way. passengers should be allowed off deflective aircraft and directed to a waiting area or to alternative aircraft.
regards.

 

[oz_mark]

we are not criminals and should not be treated in this way. passengers should be allowed off deflective aircraft and directed to a waiting area or to alternative aircraft.
regards.

While I don't disagree, there are problems when you land in a coutry that you have no visa or other legal reason for being there. If the authorities won't let you off a plane, the there is not much to be gained by blaming the airline.

Having said that, one could imagine that they could have provided refreshments.

 

[straitman]

Isn't that an oxymoron

I'm glad someone picked up on that:!: