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Doug Taylor · November 10th, 2003, 12:43

Yup, a lady fell on the ice in Madison, smacked her head and then was acting a little delirious during my passenger brief. I asked her if she was ok and wanted to seek some medical help to make sure she was ok.

She refused, but then after talking to the captain, I started having second thoughts about having her on the aircraft. We called out an ERT in Madison, they checked her out and discovered that she needed to get to the hospital quickly because she was becoming more unresponsive, dialated pupils and was starting to speak jibberish.

She spent about a week in the hospital with a severe concussion from her fall on the ice, missed some meeting in Los Angeles and then filed a lawsuit against Midwest Express Airlines (for missing her meeting), Skyway Airlines, Madison Airport Authority and the captain and I.

She dropped the lawsuit against the captain and I fairly quickly, thank goodness but I'm not sure about the rest.

Here the EMT's said we probably saved her life, but like a passenger is going to pass up an opportunity to sue an airline for a big fat monetary settlement!

November 10th, 2003, 12:43	#17
Doug Taylor Agent Smith Join Date: Dec 1969 Location: KSDL Posts: 40,430 Blog Entries: 1	Re: Flight Attendant Injury Yup, a lady fell on the ice in Madison, smacked her head and then was acting a little delirious during my passenger brief. I asked her if she was ok and wanted to seek some medical help to make sure she was ok. She refused, but then after talking to the captain, I started having second thoughts about having her on the aircraft. We called out an ERT in Madison, they checked her out and discovered that she needed to get to the hospital quickly because she was becoming more unresponsive, dialated pupils and was starting to speak jibberish. She spent about a week in the hospital with a severe concussion from her fall on the ice, missed some meeting in Los Angeles and then filed a lawsuit against Midwest Express Airlines (for missing her meeting), Skyway Airlines, Madison Airport Authority and the captain and I. She dropped the lawsuit against the captain and I fairly quickly, thank goodness but I'm not sure about the rest. Here the EMT's said we probably saved her life, but like a passenger is going to pass up an opportunity to sue an airline for a big fat monetary settlement!