An emergency medical technician who responded to a medical emergency on an American Airlines flight has come under fire for dragging the body of the female passenger, who was half-naked, past the passengers in the crowded flight.
On Monday, a woman went into the bathroom on a flight from Dallas to the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and never returned to her seat. According to passenger Art Endress, flight attendants were preparing for landing when they noticed that a passenger was still in the bathroom and called for medical assistance when the woman inside was unresponsive. A doctor and nurse on board attempted to revive her with a defibrillator.
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After the plane landed, an EMT boarded the plane and then removed the woman from the restroom, dragging her by her hands face-up and naked from the waist down in full view of all the other passengers.
“The EMT was out of line on that one,” Endress said. “Also, the flight attendants could have thrown a blanket on her.”
The other passengers remained on the plane for about an hour while a tarp was set up to shield the woman, though she was later declared to be dead. Authorities have not yet released her identity or the cause of her death.