Incident: Emirates A380 near Munich on Aug 10th 2008, medical emergency
By Simon Hradecky, created Sunday, Aug 10th 2008 16:44Z, last updated Monday, Aug 11th 2008 21:26Z
An Emirates Airbus A380-800, registration A6-EDA performing flight EK201 from Dubai (United Arab Emirates) to New York JFK,NY (USA) with 480 passenger, diverted to Munich (Germany) due to a medical emergency on board after dumping fuel near Prague.
A 9 year old girl, who reportedly had vomitted several times and then became unconscious, was brought to hospital by a helicopter.
The airplane took off again after about 2.5 hours on the ground and is estimated to arrive in New York with a delay of 4 hours.
Despite help by doctors on board, the quick emergency landing and the helicopter flight the girl needed to be reanimated on board of the helicopter. Doctors could not help anymore after arrival at the clinic, the girl was pronounced dead a few hours later.
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RIP piccolo angelo.