American Airlines pilot dies after medical episode on flight

American Airlines pilot dies after medical episode on flight
American Airlines pilot dies after medical episode on flight
American Airlines pilot dies after medical episode on flight
American Airlines pilot dies after medical episode on flight, An American Airlines pilot died after having a medical episode just before landing in Albuquerque.
The Albuquerque Journal reports (http://bit.ly/2oBo8K5) that the captain declared a medical emergency on flight 1353 a couple of minutes before landing at Albuquerque International Sunport on Wednesday evening.
A spokesman for the airline tells the newspaper that the captain landed the flight from Dallas-Fort Worth without incident. The plane taxied normally to a gate and was met by paramedics. American Airlines first officer William "Mike" Grubbs was pronounced dead.
There was no immediate word on a cause of death.
In 2015, an American Airlines pilot died on a flight from Phoenix to Boston.
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