Originally Posted by
stilton
Doctors onboard will be solicited, all assistance used and co ordination with
Med Link will help in making the divert decision but this scenario ‘he’s dead so
we might as well continue’ would not be
acceptable
Not sure I understand what you are saying. Would your airline divert to say, Petro (UHPP) to have the local official declare the pax deceased? Would you risk having the plane impounded pending a death investigation? Would you offload the body in Kamchatka? Or have it transferred to the cargo hold after necessary paperwork and formalities were accomplished?
But it is indeed the Catch 22 that you can't say the passenger is dead so you can't say that further assistance will not be rendered even if you know that it would be futile.
ANC has a gas and go service for offloading rowdy trans-pac pax with an on call magistrate and FBI agent to process them into federal custody. Unfortunately, many perps seem to be on the catch and release program but at least they run up a tab to discourage future misbehavior. Perhaps the Anchorage folks could process a death with a quick stop as well but at that point why not press on to ORD as OZ did?