{"id":129113,"date":"2025-05-24T22:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T22:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/129113\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T22:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T22:29:08","slug":"the-crew-of-virgin-atlantic-flight-vs118-saved-the-life-of-a-male-passenger-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/129113\/","title":{"rendered":"The crew of Virgin Atlantic flight #VS118 saved the life of a male passenger today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Boeing 787 Dreamliner from Miami to London declared an emergency and diverted to Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The Virgin Atlantic flight VS118 departed late from Miami Friday gate J7, May 23 2025 at 11:04pm EDT.<\/p>\n<p>While cruising at 38,000 feet over North Atlantic, the crew of the Boeing 787-9 (registration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airnavradar.com\/data\/registration\/G-VDIA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">G-VDIA<\/a>) declared a general emergency (squawk 7700).<\/p>\n<p>Before crossing the Atlantic, the flight turned left towards Canadian airspace as a passenger needed immediate medical attention.<\/p>\n<p>The gentleman experienced a cardiac arrest. The crew utilized the onboard defibrillator and performed chest compressions for 30 minutes, successfully reviving him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/airlive.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/VS118.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"572\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/VS118-1024x572.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-115492\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The flight diverted to Gander International Airport. After refueling it depart at 7:11 am local time and arrived at 14:52 BST at <a href=\"https:\/\/cam.airlive.net\/lhr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">London Heathrow<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Boeing 787 Dreamliner from Miami to London declared an emergency and diverted to Canada. The Virgin Atlantic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[51,56993,16,15,6691,56994,56995],"class_list":{"0":"post-129113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-g-vdia","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-vs","13":"tag-vs118","14":"tag-yqx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114565177230105316","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}