Toronto, Canada – Air Canada has launched an informal investigation in the emergency diversion of a London-bound flight after the co-pilot fell ill somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean.
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But the airline’s spokesman, Peter Fitzpatrick, declined Tuesday to divulge any details about the pilot’s medical condition, including confirming media reports that the pilot has been taken to a psychiatric hospital in Shannon, Ireland.
“I’m sure they’re looking into this,” Fitzpatrick said. “We are always evaluating everything we do.”
Flight 848 from Toronto was forced to make an emergency landing in Ireland at about 8a.m. local time Monday after the co-pilot suffered what an Irish newspaper described as a nervous breakdown.
If this was Spirit airlines I would understand.