The passengers remained on the aircraft while an ambulance attended to the affected person.
A Boeing 737-800 of the British airline Jet2 was forced to make an emergency landing after one of the pilots lost consciousness at an altitude of 9,000 meters.
According to a company spokesman, quoted by the Birmingham Live portal, it is about flight LS1239, which was heading from the British city of Birmingham to Antalya, in Turkey, and had to land in Thessaloniki, Greece, as a “precautionary measure ”, since one of the pilots “was not feeling well”.
A passenger reported, picked up by the media, that the incident began when the aircraft experienced some turbulence. “While we where [sentados] we noticed that something was happening in the front part of the plane,” he said.
We thought someone had been hurt in the bathroom by the turbulence […] then we were told that we would be landing in Greece due to a medical emergency on board,” he continued.
The witness stated that the crew did not inform them at the time what was happening and that the plane began to descend rapidly. He also stated that they were not allowed to disembark until an ambulance evacuated the pilot, which took more than an hour.
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