Tony Aldapa and Steven Chang have each received the electronic voucher and a call from the airline
An email from the airline apologized to them for the inconvenience
The EMTs, with an ICU nurse, performed CPR on Isaias Hernandez during a flight from Orlando to Los Angeles
United Airlines previously claimed it was not responsible for notifying all 179 passengers on a flight that a man had died from coronavirus
Aldapa said it it took 10 days to finally hear from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health that he had been exposed
United Passenger Who Did CPR on Man with COVID Gets $200 Thank You United Airlines Thanks Passengers Who Aided Man with COVID . $200 Voucher for the CPR Play video content TRYING TO SAVE A LIFE TMZ.com
The United passengers who risked their own health to give aid to a man who had COVID-19 have been compensated for the inconvenience . with vouchers barely worth a round trip anywhere. Play video content PASSENGER TONY ALDAPA, EMT TMZ.com
Tony Aldapa one of the passengers who performed CPR on the COVID-infected man for 45 minutes tells TMZ, he got a call from a United rep Thursday thanking him for his assistance during the crisis, and letting him know a $200 electronic travel certificate would be emailed to him.
United Airlines Passengers Who Gave Aid to Dying Man With COVID Were Given $75 Flight Voucher
It s been confirmed that a man who died last week in some respiratory or cardiac distress on board a California-bound United flight out of Orlando was COVID-positive. And now passengers who helped administer medical aid are wondering why they had to find out from the news media.
The nightmare of all COVID nightmares happened to a group of passengers flying from Orlando to Los Angeles on December 14, after a 69-year-old man experiencing COVID symptoms lied on a travel form, boarded the plane, and promptly went into cardiac arrest after takeoff. The plane made a medical-emergency landing in New Orleans, and while some passengers overheard the man s wife tell medical personnel that he had been experiencing symptoms, including a loss of taste and smell, the United crew understood that the man had died of a heart attack, and decided to fly the same plane on to LAX. Passengers were given the opt
New video shows passengers desperately trying to save man, 69, who died of COVID-19 on United flight - as they reveal they have now developed symptoms but have STILL not been contacted by the CDC
New video shows passenger Steven Chang performing CPR on Isaias Hernandez, who died of COVID-19 on United Airlines flight on December 14
Chang says he has developed symptoms since, but is yet to hear from the CDC
The CDC said it has sent the contact information of passengers to state and local health departments where they live for follow-up and contact tracing
United Airlines said they weren t responsible for contacting the 179 passengers who were on the flight
Passenger who had medical emergency on flight died of COVID-19, coroner says
By Azi Paybarah New York Times,Updated December 23, 2020, 3:49 a.m.
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A coroner in Louisiana confirmed Tuesday what some had feared: that the death last week of a 69-year-old man who experienced a medical emergency aboard a United Airlines flight bound for Los Angeles had been caused by COVID-19.
The coronerâs office in Jefferson Parish identified the passenger as Isais Hernandez, 69, of Los Angeles, who was on United Flight 591 when it took off from Orlando, Florida, on Dec. 18.