Plane diverted after co-pilot dies

[Gumleaf]

Monday Feb 25 21:46 AEDT


A British airline said on Monday one of its flights was forced to divert to Turkey after the co-pilot died in mid-flight.

GB Airways said the flight, carrying 156 passengers from Manchester to Pathos in Cyprus, landed in Istanbul on Sunday after what was termed a medical emergency on the flight deck. The co-pilot was pronounced dead once the plane had landed.

The co-pilot's name and age and cause of death were not released, but the airline said he had died of natural causes.

The airline said passengers were never in danger. They were due to be flown to Cyprus on Monday.


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[Φρανκομβριτ]

they wouldnt have been in danger, but holy shit!! "Ladies and gentleman, we wil be making a breif unscheduled stop in instabul to dump the dead co-pilot. Thank you for choosing GB airways"

[Patchy]

they wouldnt have been in danger, but holy shit!! "Ladies and gentleman, we wil be making a breif unscheduled stop in instabul to dump the dead co-pilot. Thank you for choosing GB airways"

lol at that,

but yeah that must be kinda scary for the crew cause if the captain died or fainted or something, they'd be stuck.

but everything went ok :) apart from the co-pilot dying :(

[Φρανκομβριτ]

everything went ok :) apart from the co-pilot dying :(

LOL!!!! Best quote ever, thats going on my facebook

[Patchy]

Yeah I really need to re-read my posts b4 I post em :P

[Φρανκομβριτ]

lol no need, that was brill!! :D

[Bobby]

I wouldn't want to be on that flight :P

[Malcolm Tucker]

:eek: How did I miss this :| Oh Stephen, It's spelt Paphos. Wow. I'm glad that it landed ok anyway :) Conmiserations to the Co-Pilot's family.

Rudi, is BD or EZ getting GR Airways? Cnat find it on Google.

[Gavin]

nor would i want to be on that flight lol

[Gumleaf]

:eek: How did I miss this :| Oh Stephen, It's spelt Paphos.


i'm not a journalist mate, i just copy and paste the articles. then i can't get blamed for spelling and grammar mistakes. :P

[Malcolm Tucker]

lol Sorry. I get touchy when it comes to Cypriot issues :P. Long story :D No offence.

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Rudi, is BD or EZ getting GR Airways? Cnat find it on Google.

Last time I checked, it was going to BD. It was BA's originally, but I didn't hear anything about EZ putting in an offer. Interesting....

[Gumleaf]

lol Sorry. I get touchy when it comes to Cypriot issues :P. Long story :D No offence.

thats ok, i'm flattered that you thought i wrote it, but it does have that little copyright thingy at the bottom though.

[Malcolm Tucker]

Last time I checked, it was going to BD. It was BA's originally, but I didn't hear anything about EZ putting in an offer. Interesting....

Oh right. :P I saw one of their hybrids last week I think, wasn;t sure who had it last

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Oh right. :P I saw one of their hybrids last week I think, wasn;t sure who had it last

yeah, they'll be around for a while. BD is laaaazy. I wouldn't be suprised if they were still flying around in BA colours.

[Malcolm Tucker]

yeah, they'll be around for a while. BD is laaaazy. I wouldn't be suprised if they were still flying around in BA colours.

haha. Love to see that. That has happend to me when we were going to Rhodes, and were booked in with ECA (Fav. Airline) and all 138 of us were confused when a CY A320 pulled up, until we found out UI had leased it :P

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haha. Love to see that. That has happend to me when we were going to Rhodes, and were booked in with ECA (Fav. Airline) and all 138 of us were confused when a CY A320 pulled up, until we found out UI had leased it :P I had a flight booked on AC, when I got to my connecting flight, it was operated by LO, and it was a canada -> canada flight. It was weird!!!

[Malcolm Tucker]

haha. I love AC. They Put 773 on YYZ-YUL flights :P

[Φρανκομβριτ]

haha. I love AC. They Put 773 on YYZ-YUL flights :P

:P Yeah, I think theres still rarely 1 or 2 of those!! They put em on YYZ-YVR, and YYZ-FRA now. They used to send A319's to LHR from YYT. That was the funniest thing I ever did see!!

[Malcolm Tucker]

:P Yeah, I think theres still rarely 1 or 2 of those!! They put em on YYZ-YVR, and YYZ-FRA now. They used to send A319's to LHR from YYT. That was the funniest thing I ever did see!!

LX and LH use 737 and 319 from ZRH-JFK, IAD, and DUS and FRA-YYZ lol

I thought it was great when I saw more AA and AC planed in LHR than BA haha

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LX and LH use 737 and 319 from ZRH-JFK, IAD, and DUS and FRA-YYZ lol

I thought it was great when I saw more AA and AC planed in LHR than BA haha

LH bought LX, so they do a lot of codeshareing. LH / LX codeshare an all buisness class flight on Privitair to JFK and IAD, but FRA - YYZ on LH is either an A340-600 or -300

[Malcolm Tucker]

LH bought LX, so they do a lot of codeshareing. LH / LX codeshare an all buisness class flight on Privitair to JFK and IAD, but FRA - YYZ on LH is either an A340-600 or -300

oh right. You know a lot about Airlines. Hi new role model :P

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oh right. You know a lot about Airlines. Hi new role model :P

:P I AM THE CICIL AVIATION MASTER!! if you want to talk, you can add me on msn, I'll pm it to you