B737 Undifferentiated or Other Model
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 120; Flight Crew Total 11800; Flight Crew Type 1000
Physiological - Other
Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Illness / Injury
Flight Crew Landed in Emergency Condition; Flight Crew Returned To Departure Airport; General Declared Emergency; General Physical Injury / Incapacitation
Human Factors
During cruise at 33;000 feet in smooth air; a large passenger became ill. The passenger fell in the aisle taking a flight attendant to the ground and breaking her leg in three places. The actions of the other three flight attendants plus an RN; and an EMT trainee resulted in a stabilized situation but necessitating a return to the departure airport. Our contract medical service was advised through our Dispatcher and emergency authority was used in an expedited arrival into the airport where the plane was met at the gate by emergency medical personnel.
A large passenger fell in a B737 isle taking flight attendant to the floor and breaking her leg in three places.