Dr William Makis, MD
Exclusive to Rense
3-27-25

Commercial Airline Pilot incapacitations in-flight in 2025 (6):

Mar.11, 2025 - Flight Vueling VY-6015 (SVQ - LGW) Seville, Spain to London Gatwick UK - first officer incapacitated

Mar.10, 2025 - Quantas Flight QF505 (BNE-SYD) Brisbane to Sydney - Quantas pilot collapsed with chest pains

Feb.27, 2025 - Wizz Air Flight W9-5327 (LTN-IST) London Luton to Istanbul Turkey - one pilot incapacitated

Feb.8, 2025 - Easyjet Flight U2-2252 (HRG-MAN) Hurghada Egypt, to Manchester UK - captain incapacitated

Jan.29, 2025 - Flysafair Flight FA-711 (GRJ-JNB) George to Johannesburg, South Africa - captain incapacitated

Jan.5, 2025 - Transat Flight TS-880 (YXU-CUN) London, ON, Canada to Cancun, Mexico, pilot became incapacitated

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Commercial Airline Pilot incapacitations in-flight in 2024 (12):

Nov.3, 2024 - British Airways Flight BA2158 (UVF-LGW) Saint Lucia to London, 47 year old pilot died suddenly during layover, after collapsing in Saint Lucia resort.

Oct.9, 2024 - Turkish Airlines Flight TK204 (SEA-IST) from Istanbul to Seattle, Captain Ilcehin Pehlivan, age 59, died mid-flight

Sep.8, 2024 - Southwest Flight SW3584 (LAS-DAL) departed LAS at 0834PDT headed to DAL, diverted to LBB due to incapacitation of the captain. FO landed, stopped and removed the captain from the seat to get to the gate.

Aug 19, 2024 - Wizz Air Flight W6-1451 (WAW-LCA) from Warsaw (Poland) to Larnaca (Cyprus), pilot became incapacitated, plane forced to return to Warsaw, incident identified as serious

Jul.22, 2024 - Edelweiss Flight WK-5 (TPA-ZRH) from Tampa, FL, USA to Zurich, Switzerland, pilot suffered a medical condition and was incapacitated

Jun.12, 2024 - Nesma Airlines Flight NE-130 (CAI-TIF) Cairo, Egypt to Taif (Saudi Arabia) - pilot Captain Hassan Youssef Adas in his late 30s collapsed and died from a presumed heart attack

Jun.4, 2024 - Aeromexico Flight AM-34 (MTY-MAD) from Monterrey (Mexico ) to Madrid (Spain), first officer became unwell, had a medical problem, flight diverted to Mexico City.

Mar.24, 2024 - Jetblue Pilot Captain Keith Duncan died suddenly during layover in Curacao

Mar.14, 2024 - British Airways BA-2272 (JFK-LGW) New York to London-Gatwick one of the pilots became incapacitated, plane forced to divert to St.John’s, NL, Canada.

Feb.17, 2024 - Lufthansa Flight LH-1140 (FRA-SVQ) Frankfurt to Seville on Feb.17, 2024 - First Officer Incapacitated, plane turned around back to Madrid

Feb.16, 2024 - DELTA - NYC - 58 year old Capt Geoffrey John Brock died unexpectedly on Feb.16, 2024 during a layover in Honolulu, HI

Jan.16, 2024 - LATAM Brasil Flight LA-3744 (BSB-JPA) Brasilia to Joao Pessoa on Jan.16, 2024 - Pilot Incapacitated, plane diverted to Salvador for safe landing

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Commercial Airline Pilot incapacitations in-flight in 2023 (25 total):

Dec.11, 2023 - Cathay Pacific Flight CX101 (HKG-SYD) from Hong Kong to Sydney - Captain felt unwell, crew turned around and returned to Hong Kong, landed safely 3 hr later

Dec.5, 2023 - Ryanair Flight RK-8528 (STN-OZZ) from London Stansted, UK, to Ouarzazate, Morocco - pilot felt unwell, crew diverted to Faro, Portugal, landed safely 30 min

Nov.29, 2023 - American Airlines Flight AA755 CDG-PHL, from Paris, France, to Philadelphia, PA, pilot had a seizure and collapsed in the cockpit.

Nov.26, 2023 - Ryanair Flight FR-3472 (LTN-RZE) from London Luton, UK to Rzeszow (Poland) on Nov.26, 2023, one of the pilots became incapacitated, plane diverted to Krakow and landed safely

Nov.20, 2023 - Air Transat Flight TS-186 (YYZ-PUJ) from Toronto, Canada to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic - pilot became incapacitated and was replaced by a pilot passenger

Oct.30, 2023 - Jet2 Flight LS-1711 (MAN-DLM) Manchester (UK) to Dalaman (Turkey) - First officer became incapacitated, pilot diverted aircraft to Budapest, landed safely

Sep.24, 2023 - Austrian Airlines Flight OS-188 (STR-VIE) Stuttgart to Vienna The captain became incapacitated, first officer took control of aircraft

Sep.22, 2023 - Delta Flight DL-291 (CDG-LAX) Paris to Los Angeles - Pilot became incapacitated, was taken to cabin for care, plane diverted to Minneapolis, pilot taken to hospital

Aug.27, 2023 - Air Canada Flight AC348 (YVR-YOW) Vancouver to Ottawa, one of the pilots felt ill and became incapacitated 50 min before landing in Ottawa.

Aug.16, 2023 - Qatar Airways Flight QR579 (DEL-DOH) Delhi to Doha, Qatar, 51 year old pilot collapsed as a passenger inflight and died, plane diverted to Dubai.

Aug.14, 2023 - LATAM Flight LA505 (MIA-SCL) Miami to Santiago, Chile - 2 hours into 8hr flight, 56 year old Captain Ivan Andaur collapsed and died in the lavatory - plane diverted to Panama City!

Aug.9, 2023 - United Airlines UAL1309 (SRQ-EWR) Sarasota to Newark, pilot had a heart attack and lost consciousness in flight

Aug.7, 2023 - TigerAIR Flight IT237 (CTS-TPE) Sapporo to Taipei, copilot had a medical emergency after landing plane in Taipei

July 19, 2023 - Eurowings Discover Flight 4Y-1205 (HER-FRA) Heraklion to Frankfurt, pilot incapacitated, first officer took control, landed safely

Jun.7, 2023 - Air Canada Flight ACA692 (YYZ-YYT) Toronto to St.John’s, First Officer became incapacitated, deadheading Captain assumed duties

May 11, 2023 - HiSKy Flight H4474 (DUB-KIV) Dublin to Chisinau (Moldova), 20 min after liftoff pilot became “unable to act”, plane diverted to Manchester

May 4, 2023 - British Charter TUI Airways Flight BY-1424 (NCL-LPA) Newcastle to Las Palmas Spain pilot became ill, plane diverted back to NCL.

April 21, 2023 - Easyjet Flight U2-6469 (LGW-AGA) London Gatwick to Agadir, Morocco, first offer became incapacitated, diverted to Faro, Portugal.

April 4, 2023 - United Airlines Flight 2102 (BOI-SFO) - captain was incapacitated, first officer was only one in control of the aircraft.

March 25, 2023 - TAROM Flight RO-7673 TSR-HRG diverted to Bucharest as 30 yo pilot had chest pain, then collapsed

March 22, 2023 - Southwest Flight WN6013 LAS-CMH diverted as pilot collapsed shortly after take-off, replaced by non-Southwest pilot

March 18, 2023 - Air Transat Flight TS739 FDF-YUL first officer was incapacitated about 200NM south of Montreal

March 13, 2023 - Emirates Flight EK205 MXP-JFK diverted due to pilot illness hour and a half after take-off

March 11, 2023 - United Airlines Flight UA2007 GUA-ORD diverted due to “incapacitated pilot” who had chest pains

March, 3, 2023 - Virgin Australia Flight VA-717 ADL-PER Adelaide to Perth flight was forced to make an emergency landing after First Officer suffered heart attack 30 min after departure.

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Commercial Airline Pilot deaths on duty (not in flight) in 2023 (4 total):

Sep.23, 2023 - Alaska Airlines Pilot Death - 37 year old Captain Eric McRae died suddenly in his hotel room during layover, was to fly that morning

Aug.17, 2023 - IndiGo Flight (NAG-PNQ) Nagpur to Pune, India, 40 year old Pilot Manoj Subramanium died after collapsing at the boarding gate, about to board.

May 3, 2023 - Air Transat and Air Canada Pilot Death - 48 year old Eddy Vorperian, died suddenly during layover in Croatia

March 11, 2023 - British Airways (CAI-LHR) pilot died of heart attack in crew hotel in Cairo before a Cairo to London flight (name & age not released)