Flight AC051 had left Delhi shortly after midnight local time. When Pant’s symptoms started seven hours later, it was over Europe. Pande says she pleaded with the cabin crew to divert the plane and land in order to get her father to a hospital.
Instead, the flight stayed on course for nine more hours, travelling over Ireland, across the Atlantic Ocean and Eastern Canada before touching ground in Montreal. Paramedics were waiting — but Pant died as they worked on him.
“I was very hysterical,” said Pande. “My mind was gone at this point.”
Her father was officially pronounced dead at a Montreal hospital from a “presumed infarction” — dead heart tissue.
Two months later, Pande says the piercing grief has given way to anger.
“He was at the mercy of the pilot and Air Canada people,” she told Go Public. “They were inhumane and callous.”
Murdered via neglegence. Choosing to finish the flight on time over someone’s life should be despicable to anyone with a fragment of a soul left.
There are the mandated penalties for late arrivals. Diverting could result in a 24h delay for ~250 passengers which could mean a 250k fine
Except despite all the BS reasons AC says flights are outside of their control, this one is definitely outside their control.
So that doesn’t hold.I wonder what their decision was based on.
a 250k fine
Oh wow, that’s like a whole minute worth of revenue for them
Looks like we’re getting another lawsuit on the value of a life.
How cheap are they today?
Eh, doesn’t matter how expensive it is they’ll just increase ticket prices. It’s not like there’s much competition or incentive for air Canada to improve things.
I’d wager less than the fundamental things required to sustain it.
That’s it. Nationalize Air Canada. We have had it with their self serving doctrine.
I think you mean renationalize … Mulroney sold it off in '88 after deregulating airfares and letting airlines abandon uneconomic routes. And Ottawa bailed out AC during COVID, buying up almost 10% of the shares.
My guess is nationalization is on the table.
Canada would operate perfectly fine with nationalized airlines, telecoms, and O&G. These are established industries that don’t need market effects to grow or remain profitable.
The only reason we don’t is because we’re fucking idiots beholden to capitalism.
Ah, I see the airline has moved on from simply degrading disabled people to murdering them. So much more efficient!
Don’t forget the recent diarrhea flight
Ah, yes. All the way.
Next time just threaten to blow up the plane and pretend you have a bomb in your suitcase ready to blow if they don’t land immediately.
They’ll care so much about saving their property that they’ll definitely land.
Jesus Christ Air Canada is going hard for that cartoon villain status
See folks this is why we should continue to deregulate the market.
If he wanted to live, he should’ve bought a new heart before flying!
How can a shit-show like Air Canada operate like this for so long??
AND ALWAYS GET AWAY WITH IT???
