The family of a deceased man during a Flight American Airlines According to a trial, is continued after the passenger was refused medical care while undergoing a “increasing medical crisis”, according to a trial.
John William Cannon, 62, died on April 29, 2023. In the complaint examined by people, his son, Kyle Cannon, said that more could have been made to prevent the death of Cannon.
American Airlines told people they “examine the complaint”.
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Cannon rose aboard the Flight 1444 of American Airlines from Louisville International Airport from Kentucky to go to Dallas around 12:30 p.m. on April 28, 2023, according to the unjustified death trial.
Cannon was on the way to attend a celebration of the life of his late partner, said Kyle's lawyer Joseph Lorusso, McClatchy News Thursday April 24.
At the time when he moved from his first flight, Cannon “underwent a syncopal event”, according to the trial. He was helped on the ground of the jet bridge, but was released a few minutes later to make his connection in Colorado.
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Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner of American Airlines, October 2024
“While Mr. Cannon exhibited signs of medical distress, the AAL staff carried it to transfer it from the AAL1444 to its connection, Aal4896 (operated by Envir Air, Inc.),” said the complaint.
The victim would have become insensitive and, according to allegations in the trial, “despite the climbing of Mr. Cannon's medical crisis, the aal 4896 driving crew delayed medical aid until the plane landed, overturned to the door, and all the other passengers got rid of.”
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His symptoms understood “being in and out of conscience with laborious breathing”.
The Durango La Plata firefighters arrived and administered oxygen to Cannon before removing it from the plane. However, when he was transported to the Mercy Medical Center, he “underwent a bradycardia of the sinuses, which progressed to the arrest of ventricular fibrillation”, indicates the trial.
At the early hours of the next morning, he was declared dead.
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Kyle and his lawyers argue that Cannon's death “was the direct and immediate result of the negligence and the fault of the” American airlines and its employees.
“The circumstances of this case represent a tangible demonstration of a corporate culture at American Airlines which prioritizes inaction on the intervention,” said Lorusso and Jessica McBryant, lawyers for the Cannon family.
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“This anchored culture, to which John Cannon tragically was a victim, underlines a systemic problem that the family is determined to solve, both to seek justice for John and to plead for a wider organizational change,” said Lorusso and McBryant.
Kyle seeks to recover damages for “conscious pain, suffering, mental anxiety, loss of time and income, medical costs and other damages before his death” in the amount of more than $ 75,000, the more lawyer fees.
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