Incident ex Virgin Flt yesterday- pax death

[HZ123]

Understand that pax ex South Africa flt yesterday very ill during flt and subsequenntly died at Hillingdon Hospital. Part of the hospital was subsequently closed and there was concern about the cause of death and the aircraft had to be fumigated. Lot of high powered meetings yesterday at T/3 as clearly this lady should not have been permitted to fly in the first place?

[darren13]

virgin

interesting,i will try and find out what occured at work today.

[Leezyjet]

interesting,i will try and find out what occured at work today

Don't believe all that you hear. The story has been blown way out of proportion judging by the rumours I heard today.

clearly this lady should not have been permitted to fly in the first place?

And if the airline didn't know the full extent of her condition ?

I was directly involved with the whole incident, but will say no more on a public forum.

Here is a link I just found to the only news story I could find :-

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_obje...name_page.html

[montafon]

If (and that's a big if!) the Mirror Story is correct as to what the condition is, there shouldnt be too much reason for concern; Ebola is actually not that contagious- direct contact with infected bodily fluids is required.
Sounds like alot of overblown reporting really!

[Hilico]

With over 100 000 members of PPRuNe, it's going to be a long time before we can educate all of them not to put words like 'yesterday' in the thread titles.

[scroggs]

It has been confirmed that the pasenger did not die of the Ebola virus.

Scroggs