I was on a LAX-SYD flight that got diverted to HNL because of patient who had chest pain, due to a late departure from LAX we ended up being diverted to BNE as crew were out of hours before flying onto SYD, the BNE bound folk were not too pleased, I had to connect to MEL so it ended it being an interesting flight home that day as i missed by MCO-LAX direct flight and ended up flying MCO-MEM-LAX-HNL-BNE-SYD-MEL ... needless to say i think i slept for 24hours straight by the time i got home!
As for faking chest pain, working for the Ambulance Service in Melbourne this is not a shocking story, people pay an ambulance membership and automatically assume they are entitled to use it as taxi, it's amazing the number of times crews are dealing with a paper cut when they could be responding to someone who will actually die without urgent medical intervention.
Oh well, thats life i guess.
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