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Location: Washington, DC, Chapel Hill, NC (RDU)
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In 1999 I was on a flight from LED(at the time)-MAN, an Aeroflot tour charter. Man in the seat behind me had what was probably a heart attack just as the doors were being closed for departure.
The doors were reopened and medics came on, provided some aid and then took the passenger off, still alive. He and his wife were pretty adamant about not wanting to be taken off and taken for Russian medical care, but to continue back to Manchester.
And the Aeroflot captain wasn't going to take off with someone that sick.