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A man tried to save a passenger on a cross-country United flight. Man died of covid-19. The airline offered him $200.
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Tony Aldapa, an intermediate medical technician at a Los Angeles hospital, said that was in addition to a $75 voucher that a flight attendant gave him on the plane. He said a customer service representative also called.
While Aldapa said he would use the voucher for an upcoming flight, he was put off that he hadn’t seen any public statement from the airline acknowledging the efforts to help the passenger. He said he didn’t need praise.
“What I would have appreciated was acknowledgement,” he said in an email. “Any kind of statement regarding what happened from anyone in the company would have been good, about us passengers that helped, about the flight attendants or the pilots, anything to show that the higher-ups in the company were following the story. But the only thing I ever saw were the statements saying it wasn’t their responsibility to notify passengers.”
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A United spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment or questions about whether other passengers were also offered vouchers.Man who died following medical emergency on United flight had coronavirus, coroner says
Aldapa and a couple of other passengers on the Dec. 14 Orlando-to-Los Angeles flight performed CPR on a 69-year-old man for about 45 minutes as the flight was diverted to New Orleans. The man was later pronounced dead at a local hospital.
At the time, the man’s wife said he had been experiencing symptoms of covid-19, but passengers were left to wonder for days if they had been exposed. A medical examiner ruled about a week later that the man died of covid-19 and acute respiratory failure. Read more from MSN.
