Lack of Oxygen??

[C]

the oxygen bottle used was a portable oxygen bottle, it is required to contain enough oxygen pressure for the flight attendant to breath normally for a short period of time while performing cabin duties in the event of an emergency decompression descent. (i dont recall the exact numbers) but this oxygen bottle is not the same as the oxygen bottle that supplies passenger oxygen through the overhead masks. there are in fact several oxygen bottles throughout the aircraft.

I'd be very surprised if they didn't have to carry seperate (different types) bottles, one type for crew emergency use and the other purely as an emergency theraputic source for medical use (purely based on the fact that the oxygen requirements of the two situations are very different).

I only say that as we have to.

[expat]

the oxygen bottle used was a portable oxygen bottle, it is required to contain enough oxygen pressure for the flight attendant to breath normally for a short period of time while performing cabin duties in the event of an emergency decompression descent. (i dont recall the exact numbers) but this oxygen bottle is not the same as the oxygen bottle that supplies passenger oxygen through the overhead masks. there are in fact several oxygen bottles throughout the aircraft.

I'd be very surprised if they didn't have to carry seperate (different types) bottles, one type for crew emergency use and the other purely as an emergency theraputic source for medical use (purely based on the fact that the oxygen requirements of the two situations are very different).

I only say that as we have to.

I would think that a stressed/ill pax (as in this example) on a flight would have the same, if not less O2 requirement than that of a flight attendant who is working to save her/his life and that of pax or deal with a intense emergency situation that required then to use O2. Training is training, real life is very often different.

Matt

[DaveSims]

A little inside information that I picked up from some of the fire/resuce guys that dealt with the situation.

[RitterKreuz]

A little inside information that I picked up from some of the fire/resuce guys that dealt with the situation.  Given the woman's condition, oxygen wouldn't have saved her.  The automatic defib performed as its supposed to, she did not have a shockable rhythm so it did nothing.  There was nothing the airline could have done short of preventing her from flying.

On a side note, the press loves to pick up any and every story regarding aviation, because they can scare people with it.  Everytime a plane crashed, suddenly every plane of the same type is a deathtrap.  Every time an airline has an incident, that airline is the most dangerous in the world.  My point, don't listen to the media, they dont' know jack.

your understanding of the situation is correct... if she had a pulmonary embolism... whether she experienced it in a bathroom stall, the airplane or even the best hospital in the world... sadly either way she was dead meat.

[DaveSims]

From my info, she had advanced heart disease and cause of death was ruled natural causes.  

As for the oxygen onboard, the airline's do carry emergency medical oxygen along with an emergency bag like we have on our rescue units that has some drugs and such.  That is in addition to the emergency oxygen for an aircraft emergency.