{"id":1131,"date":"2015-10-08T08:04:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T08:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tripbeam.com\/?p=1131"},"modified":"2020-01-08T12:26:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T12:26:21","slug":"what-happens-if-your-pilot-dies-on-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tripbeam.com\/blog\/what-happens-if-your-pilot-dies-on-flight","title":{"rendered":"What Happens if Your Pilot Dies On Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grief strikes the deceased\u2019s family and friends, but if you are thinking of anything other than that…NO! Nothing more. It is not really a panic situation if your pilot dies on a flight.<\/p>\n

Apart from the obvious sorrow death brings with itself there is not much of a negative consequence as far as the safety of the passengers or anyone else on the flight is concerned. There are a good number of safeguards in place to handle such emergency situations.<\/p>\n

Though such incidents are rare they have happened in the past. The most recent being that on 5th October when the captain of American airlines died mid-flight while at controls of the plane flying to Boston from Pheonix.<\/p>\n

Taking charge at this unfortunate time, the co-pilot made an emergency landing in Syracruse, and after a halt for a few hours and arrangements of the new pilot the flight took off for the real destination.<\/p>\n

Apart from the little delay, the passengers at no time had to face any other problem, least of all any risk to the lives flying sans the captain.<\/p>\n

The incident got us thinking that this safety aspect, which common folks are not much aware of, must be brought into the light and explained a bit.<\/p>\n

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