6th This Month! Pilot Of Airbus A321 Becomes Incapacitated Flying Over US

We've been covering several pilots and flight attendants that have either died, had a heart…

The Washington Standard

We’ve been covering several pilots and flight attendants that have either died, had a heart attack or become incapacitated in some way during routine flights. Now, another pilot became incapacitated while aboard an Air Transat Airbus A321 during a flight from Fort-de-France to Montreal and over US airspace. This is the sixth this month that’s been reported. Could it have anything to do with the experimental COVID shots?

Simple Flying reports:

On March 18th, an Air Transat Airbus A321 was flying from Fort-de-France to Montreal when the aircraft’s first officer became incapacitated. The incident occurred as the aircraft was flying over the United States, 200NM south of Montreal.

Incident details

According to The Aviation Herald, the March 18th incident took place aboard Air Transat flight TS739, an Airbus A321-200 service from Fort-de-France, capital of the French territory of Martinique to Montreal, Canada.

The flight departed took off at 13:34, 34 minutes past its scheduled departure time. According to FlightRadar24.com data, reached a cruising altitude of FL320 approximately 25 minutes after takeoff. The aircraft increased its cruising altitude twice more during the flight, going up to FL340, and then FL360. 191 people were onboard the A321-200, which was registered C-GTCY.