Wikio - Carine Desir

Airlines Playing ER at 30,000 Feet (ABC News)

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:41:00 GMT

... report animals' deaths on commercial flights; last year there were 14, the DOT says. The death of Carine Desir on an American Airlines flight from Haiti to New York on Feb. 22 raised questions about how airlines handle medical emergencies. Desir's family has questioned whether the airline responded quickly enough with oxygen to save her. The airline says its own review of the...

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When passengers die on planes, everyday flights turn macabre (Seattle Times)

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:45:04 GMT

Carine Desir is latest death on a plane, but pilots often won't stop flights or make emergency landings

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Airline defends conduct in woman's death (kansascity.com)

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:55:00 GMT

NEW YORK American Airlines defended its staff as professional and its equipment as sound Monday after a swift review of a passenger's in-flight death, despite her family's claims that the crew ignored her pleas until it was too late.

Carine Desir, 44, was pronounced dead Friday on a nearly full Haiti-to-New York flight by a pediatrician who said he tried to use the plane's defibrillator...

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Surviving an airline flight (ac360blog)

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:22:37 GMT

The recent story of Carine Desir, a 44-year-old woman who died on an American Airlines flight from Haiti to New York, has a lot of people thinking: Could that happen to me? Well, it could. But it's not likely and there’s no reason to panic. What happened to Desir? She reportedly complained of not being able [...]

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Family blames American Airlines crew for death (NY Daily News)

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:54:00 GMT

Everyone agrees that an hour after American Airlines Flight 896 took off, Carine Desir started gasping desperately for breath. Desir's family says airline flight attendants didn't move quickly enough to help her and that lifesaving equipment was not working. (with video)

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AMERICAN AIRLINES (Dallas Morning News)

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:05:21 GMT

American Airlines Inc. said Monday that its oxygen containers and heart defibrillator were working properly when doctors tried unsuccessfully to revive an ailing passenger on a flight from Haiti.An American spokesman denied that flight attendants unduly delayed getting medical treatment for Carine Desir, a 44-year-old Brooklyn woman who died Friday during a flight between Port-au-Prince...

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Woman Dies On Jet With Empty Oxygen Tanks (The Post Chronicle)

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:40:41 GMT

The airline was reacting to allegations by family members of Carine Desir that the aircraft's oxygen equipment was empty. ...

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Airline: Passenger Was Given Oxygen (Drudge Retort)

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:56:16 GMT

American Airlines has emailed a statement to the Drudge Retort denying that an ailing passenger was not given oxygen before she died on one of its flights. Carine Desir also was treated with a defibrillator, according to the airline.

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Another Government Casualty (who's your nanny?)

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:11:43 GMT

A 44-year-old woman died on an American Airlines flight last Friday after having trouble breathing [emphasis mine]. After the flight attendant refused to administer oxygen to [Carine] Desir, she became distressed, pleading, "Don't let me die," Oliver recalled. Other passengers...

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Passenger Dies on American Airlines Flight (Drudge Retort)

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:32:30 GMT

Struggling to breathe, American Airlines passenger Carine Desir died on an American Airlines flight after requesting oxygen, which a flight attendant twice refused to do, according to the woman's cousin said. "Don't let me die," the cousin, Antonio Oliver, recalled Desir saying. She died on the flight after oxygen tanks were empty.

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Dead Woman's Cousin Blames Jet Equipment (Examiner)

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:48:39 GMT

Struggling to breathe, American Airlines passenger Carine Desir asked for oxygen, but a flight attendant twice refused her request, the woman's cousin said.

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Dead Woman's Cousin Blames Jet Equipment (New York Newsday)

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:38:00 GMT

Struggling to breathe, American Airlines passenger Carine Desir asked for oxygen, but a flight attendant twice refused her request, the woman's cousin said.

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Relative Complains After Death on Flight (POE News)

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:04:03 GMT

An American Airlines passenger died after a flight attendant told her he couldn't give her any oxygen and then tried to help her with faulty equipment, including an empty oxygen tank, a relative said.The airline confirmed the flight death and said medical professionals had tried to save the passenger, Carine Desir, who was returning home to Brooklyn from Haiti.

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SUE THE BASTARDS!! (Blowing San #1)

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 04:40:00 GMT

... airline confirmed the flight death and said medical professionals had tried to save the passenger, Carine Desir, who was returning home to Brooklyn from Haiti. Desir, who had heart disease, died of natural causes, medical examiner's office spokeswoman Ellen Borakove said Sunday. Desir had complained of not feeling well and being very thirsty on the Friday flight from...

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