Posted by Larry Hoover on August 20, 2004, at 15:42:24
In reply to Re: A funny story about me and an airplane!!!, posted by Buckeye Fan on August 20, 2004, at 15:18:30
> Good story!
> And sooooooooo familiar to those of us with Panic Disorder~
>
> I have flown so infrequently, I always wondered
> with all the people who have this disorder, (and many who DISCOVER they have this disorder during a Flight...)
>
> How airlines "handle" a passenger having an acute Panic Attack
>
> Glad to hear in your case that they stopped the Plane...any other interseting stories about this out there, and what the tranqulizer of your choice was?
>
> Buckeye FanWell, I think it's worse once you're in the air, in so far as the handling goes.
On one trans-Atlantic flight, about two hours out of Heathrow, I noted the plane made a rather large turn to the right. It was fully fifteen minutes later that we were told we were landing in Iceland, to deplane a passenger who "may have had a heart attack". It was a panic attack. Given how she got to Iceland, I wonder how the poor dear made it home.
Lar
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