Continental Airlines flight declares emergency after pilot dies

[Wahey]

Wow, that'd be pretty traumatic for the paasengers :\
R.I.P

[efq]

Its landed and taxiing to gate.

God it's so rainy over there, you can't see much.

[Jordy]

Wow, that'd be pretty traumatic for the paasengers :\
R.I.P

Luckily they didn't tell the passengers, however they did ask for a Doctor so that would certainly mean something is up. There's no reports of there being a Doctor on-board but that's not to say there wasn't.

Passengers told CNN they were not told of the situation, only that an announcement for a doctor was made during the flight.

[Jordulti]

I saw an article stating the following.
- There was a doctor on board, he prounounced the pilot dead, right away. He did not defibulate the body, seeing as their was no hope.
- The passengers did not know, until they had landed.
- The passengers FAMILIES knew, as the airport reported it.
- Natural causes.
- The copilot just thought he was sleeping at first.

[AlexOC]

Good job the passengers didnt know or else it would be chaos.

And i hope they made sure the families knew that it would be landed safely, and that there was other pilots onboard, or they must of been pretty scared too.

[GommeInc]

Luckily they didn't tell the passengers, however they did ask for a Doctor so that would certainly mean something is up. There's no reports of there being a Doctor on-board but that's not to say there wasn't.

It would of been a scenario similar to Airplane! A doctor was found and no-one got told of anything because they would of panicked, especially when "Oh yes, does anyone know how to fly a plane?" was announced over the sound system

It's always a good idea not to announce potentially fatal events, it's why the asteroid that was supposedly heading towards earth was never announced until after it passed, in case panic happened.