Swiftair AT72 near Frankfurt on Dec 27th 2016, first officer incapacitated
Last Update: April 4, 2017 / 13:32:00 GMT/Zulu time
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Dec 27, 2016
Classification
Incident
Airline
Swiftair
Flight number
WT-1275
Departure
Belgrade, Serbia
Destination
Cologne, Germany
Aircraft Registration
EC-KJA
Aircraft Type
ATR ATR-72-200
ICAO Type Designator
AT72
Germany's BFU rated the occurrence a serious incident and opened an investigation.
On Apr 4th 2017 the BFU reported in their December Bulletin, that the first officer noticed first symptoms of a flu-like infection after reaching cruise level, which increased over the next two hours. About 30nm southeast of Frankfurt enroute at FL220 the first officer suffered a hyper ventilation tetany which could not be stopped anymore. The crew therefore decided to divert to Frankfurt, the captain declared PAN and received direct vectors for a landing on runway 25C at Frankfurt/Main. During first medical aid the body temperature of the first officer was measured at 39.5 degrees C, he was taken to the airport clinics. Following a night in the clinics he was discharged with a suspected diagnosis of flu-like infection.
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Dec 27, 2016
Classification
Incident
Airline
Swiftair
Flight number
WT-1275
Departure
Belgrade, Serbia
Destination
Cologne, Germany
Aircraft Registration
EC-KJA
Aircraft Type
ATR ATR-72-200
ICAO Type Designator
AT72
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