By Tom Steele and Dana Branham
3:18 PM October 21, 2020 CDT – Updated at 4:48 PM October 21, 2020 CDT
Updated at 4:45 p. m. : Flight attendants were revised to have negativeed the virus.
A Spirit Airlines worker performed CPR on an unconscious Dallas woman on a July flight that made an emergency landing in New Mexico, where the woman was pronounced dead.
We later decided that the woman’s death was caused by COVID-19, and Dallas County officials included it in their number of daily coronavirus deaths and deaths on Sunday.
Police reports received Wednesday through The Dallas Morning News will offer more key points about the incident than those published in the past.
Officers were sent to Albuquerque International Sunport Gate B7 on the night of July 24 after learning of the arrival of a flight with a medical emergency: a 38-year-old woman who is unconscious and not breathing.
Spirit Flight 208, heading from Las Vegas to DFW International Airport, landed at Albuquerque Airport more than an hour after its scheduled duration of 2. 5 hours began, according to flight tracking service FlightAware.
Firefighters and the medical corps of workers at a nearby air base boarded and regained CPR. A team member had performed CPR on the flight but fainted from exhaustion, police wrote in a report of the incident.
The first responders placed the woman on a cloth stretcher and took her to the catwalk, where they continued to check to revive her.
After several minutes, they decided that she gave the impression of “beyond medical care” and ended the rescue measures, the police wrote. The woman was officially pronounced dead on the bridge an hour later.
Police took several photographs of the woman’s mendacity on her back, but gathered additional evidence.
A police document indicates that the woman complained of shortness of air from the robbery, it is not known whether she knew she had contracted coronavirus; Local fitness officials said he was suffering from underlying high-risk fitness problems.
A post-mortem report, completed at the end of September, revealed that the woman had died of COVID-19, with contributing factors being asthma and morbid obesity. According to the report, his inhaler did not relieve his shortness of breath and had oxygen flight.
A new Mexico medical investigator’s workplace spokeswoman said she had been tested for the virus because fitness data gained workplace research.
A member of the relative circle included in police records as the woman’s closest relatives may not be able to be contacted by phone on Wednesday.
In an email statement, a Spirit representative presented his condolences to the woman’s circle of family and friends. Spokesman Erik Hofmeyer said the airline’s flight attendants are trained to respond to in-flight medical emergencies and have access to medical kits and non-public protective equipment.
Hofmeyer stated that the flight attendants were quarantined “as a precaution” and that they all tested negative for the coronavirus.
Dallas County officials first said that a woman from Garland died on July 25 before a flight from Arizona to Dallas took off, but then they said the woman was a Dallas resident who died in New Mexico. Tuesday.
When asked Wednesday about the discrepancy between the two accounts, a Dallas County spokeswoman said she might not comment on the main points provided through the agency.
It is not known whether the contacts made in the case of the woman were sought and which company would have taken care of her.
A Nevada Department of Health official visited the Southern Nevada Health District on Tuesday, however, a spokeswoman said she was unaccourse to the case and that the Centers for Federal Disease Control and Prevention would investigate a COVID-19 case related to air travel. respond to a request for information.
The New Mexico Department of Health did not respond to questions about the case and a spokeswoman for the Texas State Department of Health said the firm did not participate.
Editor Kyle Arnold contributed to this report.
Breaking News. Tom’s manufacturer, Tom Steele, has covered the latest news for The Dallas Morning News since 2016. He has worked in several other positions for The News since 2007, and was editor-in-chief of the Florida Times. Union in Jacksonville, Florida. Es a bachelor’s degree in journalism and economics from Lehigh University.
Dana Branham, last-minute journalist. Dana is a reporter for dallas Morning News’ crime and breaking news. He graduated in 2017 from the University of Oklahoma, where he studied journalism. Prior to joining The News in 2018, Dana did an internship at Cincinnati Enquirer and Tulsa World.
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