A pilot collapsed and died in the bathroom during a commercial flight from Miami to Chile — prompting an emergency landing in Panama on Sunday night, according to sources aboard the airplane.
Iván Andaur, 56, was at the helm of the Santiago-bound LATAM airlines flight around 11 p.m. when he suffered apparent cardiac arrest, according to the Sun.
His two co-pilots were forced to make an emergency landing at Tocumen International Airport in Panama City — as a nurse and two doctors onboard rushed to save him, the paper reported.
“Unfortunately, we did not have the necessary or sufficient supplies to perform a good resuscitation,” said the nurse, who was identified only as Isadora on social media.
“LATAM needs to improve the issue of protocol in case of health and medical emergencies like this where lives can be saved but the resources are needed.”
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