Flight Horror- Soleil

 Another scary incident in which an innocent life was taken. The cause of death however, could have been prevented, in this controversial state of whether to aboard a flight or to stay along track- which ended up being the worst thing to do, as it cost a life. “Brittany Oswell suddenly felt ill about three hours into her flight from Hawaii to Texas. She was dizzy, disoriented and slurring her speech. Then she briefly fainted. A flight attendant on the American Airlines flight in April 2016 tracked down a doctor on board who examined her. She may have had a panic attack, the doctor said. But it soon became clear her condition was far worse. About an hour later, Ms. Oswell, 25, collapsed in a lavatory, defecated and vomited on herself, and threw up on flight attendants who had come to check on her. The doctor returned and this time issued an urgent request to the flight crew: The pilot must land the plane immediately.

       The frenzied efforts by her husband and the doctor to save Ms. Oswell, who died three days later in a hospital of a pulmonary embolism, were detailed in a wrongful-death lawsuit filed this month by her family against American Airlines. The lawsuit alleges that the airline was negligent and ultimately contributed to her death because the pilot did not heed the doctor’s pleas to divert the plane and an onboard defibrillator and blood pressure monitor were faulty. After Ms. Oswell boarded the plane and sat down in her window seat, she called her mother to check in and said she would call again when they landed at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport for their connecting flight. But the next call came from her husband. “I could detect in his voice that it was very different,” Ms. Starks said. “He said, ‘Ms. Starks, something happened.” Within several hours, her parents were by her hospital bed in the intensive-care unit of a Dallas-area hospital. Ms. Oswell had limited brain activity and was unconscious and on life support, her parents said. Doctors determined she had suffered a pulmonary embolism — a clot that blocks blood flow to the lungs — on the flight and then had multiple heart attacks. She died three days later. “We still feel as though we are in a dream,” Ms. Starks said.

  “Everything still feels very surreal.” This is a truly saddening situation, as it was an unprecedented circumstance, but it could have been prevented. This reminds me of multiple US History scenarios, whether it be about boycotts or even going as far back as the Native Americans relationships towards the Americans, but this event is an awful occurence, and I hope it never repeats.