Originally Posted by
Chesty Morgan
I asked about Medaire previously as it could always have been their decision for the flight to continue to the destination.
Chesty..sorry missed coming back to you on that.
As I understand it (from MSM) the court was told that Medlink couldn’t be contacted quickly because the satcom on the aircraft was either inop or not even fitted, so getting hold of them would therefore either have involved an HF phone patch or really by some other means. By the time it became clear that external advice was needed the aircraft was close to Top of Descent for Nice and the captain wanted to concentrate on getting the aircraft on the ground, rather than risk getting distracted with what would probably have been very problematic comms via HF or relay.
BTW today is the first time I’ve heard the claims that the flight was 6 hours late.