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Title: US Airways Flight 550 - Pilot dies in flight
Post by: sosptuba on October 05, 2015, 01:48:19 PM
http://theweek.com/speedreads/581454/american-airlines-pilot-reportedly-dies-midflight-147-passengers-board (http://theweek.com/speedreads/581454/american-airlines-pilot-reportedly-dies-midflight-147-passengers-board)

A red-eye American Airlines flight from Phoenix to Boston was diverted Monday morning after the pilot flying the plane became ill mid-flight and died, CBS reports. A spokesperson for the airline did not specify if the pilot died during the flight, although the co-pilot landed the plane alone and can be heard posting a call to air traffic control, describing a "medical emergency" in which the pilot was "incapacitated."

US Airways Flight 550 had 147 passengers on board; the co-pilot landed the plane safely in Syracuse, New York, where a replacement crew took over the flight and flew the rest of the way to Boston.

Anyone happen to catch the audio?
Title: Re: US Airways Flight 550 - Pilot dies in flight
Post by: dave on October 05, 2015, 01:54:24 PM
ATC audio is attached here.
Title: Re: US Airways Flight 550 - Pilot dies in flight
Post by: dennisflysfast on October 05, 2015, 01:59:56 PM
FO was cool as a cucumber. That's some professionalism. My thoughts to the Captain and his family.
Title: Re: US Airways Flight 550 - Pilot dies in flight
Post by: ridejumpfly on October 05, 2015, 02:07:53 PM
Time for other feeds, PHX north tower 0703-0708 Phx departure 0709-0715
ZBW RKA sector 1020-1030
Title: Re: US Airways Flight 550 - Pilot dies in flight
Post by: FebruaryXVI on October 05, 2015, 08:24:24 PM
Its a good thing the FO got on them about getting in the cockpit.  They would have had him taxi to the deice pad and I guess just sit there until someone went and got air stairs or something.
Title: Re: US Airways Flight 550 - Pilot dies in flight
Post by: cptbrw on October 05, 2015, 08:54:05 PM
http://avherald.com/h?article=48d5d222&opt=0 (http://avherald.com/h?article=48d5d222&opt=0)

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAL550/history/20151005/0659Z/KPHX/KBOS (http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAL550/history/20151005/0659Z/KPHX/KBOS)