Air Canada Attendant Helps with Emergency Landing

A stewardess was made to aid in an emergency landing for an Air Canada flight when the co-pilot went through a mental breakdown, says reports. During the Toronto to London flight, the co-pilot of the flight had to be taken from the controls of the plane after having a nervous breakdown. The co-pilot was restrained and sedated with the help of doctors so the attendant could help with making the emergency landing. Many flight attendants helped with removing the man from the cockpit, and one of them left with an injured wrist from the struggle.

Reports from the Irish Air Accident Investigation Unit say that the man became digressive and incoherent before he refused to observe the safety measures of the aircraft. The pilot was made to judge that the co-pilot had become so uncooperative and aggressive that he wasn’t fit to continue working.

After this, the pilot requested for someone on board who had experience flying to help with the emergency landing. However, nobody on the plane other than one of the attendants could possibly help, as she holds a commercial license for flying but has an expired cockpit instrument reading qualification. The stewardess helped land the plane safely, which was a Boeing 767 with 150 passengers, in Ireland at the Shannon Airport. The pilot remarked that the stewardess wasn’t out of place while she helped land the plane.

Despite no indication of the psychiatric diagnosis of the co-pilot, the report indicated that he was fully authorized to fly, flying about 6,500 hours. He apparently spent a week and a half in a mental health ward before transferring from Ireland back to Canada by air ambulance.

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