A Yemeni Capt died of a heart attack at Heathrow today. He was 40 years old.
I was working at a control post near the incident and heard all the radio conversation between the control centre and people on the scene. BAA security were dealing with the incident. The incident happened at control post 8 while the Capt was inside a coach waiting to disembark for security search. Initially I think they called BA's staff ambulance to attend the scene, this was because the internal ambulance was on another call. But surprisingly BA ambulance did no attend, as the patient was not a BA employee. I'm just thinking if BA ambulance could have saved his life tonight by attending straightaway. They were only about 3-5 mins away from the scene. Unfortunatly the wait was too long for the outside ambulance which arrived almost 20 minutes later.
BAA security carried out CPR and tried their utmost to save his life. But they were let down tonight by BA's policy of staff only ambulance.
A sad day at work
