mandag 25. april 2016

B748 single pilot - Curt Lewis

Incident: Polar Air Cargo B748 over Pacific on Apr 22nd 2016, captain incapacitated

A Polar Air Cargo Boeing 747-800, registration N857GT performing freight flight PO-214 from Nagoya (Japan) to Cincinnati,KY (USA), was enroute at FL330 over the Pacific Ocean about 400nm west of Seattle,WA (USA) when the first officer declared medical emergency reporting the captain was incapacitated and diverted the aircraft to Seattle for a safe landing on runway 16C about one hour later. The captain was taken to a hospital.

The occurrence aircraft remained on the ground for about 5 hours then continued to Cincinnati's Northern Kentucky Airport arriving there with a delay of 5 hours.

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