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A U.S. Department of Labor judge ruled that Delta Air Lines discriminated against a pilot who raised safety concerns by calling into question her psychiatric health. Pilot Karlene Petitt filed an Occupational Safety and Health Administration complaint against the airline in 2016. Petitt said that, after she submitted a report to managers about safety issues, Delta grounded her and referred her for a psychiatric examination by a company doctor who then diagnosed her with bipolar disorder. She was later determined to not suffer from bipolar disorder and, nearly two years after being put on paid ......

ORLANDO, Fla. — A man who boarded a flight from Orlando despite having coronavirus symptoms later died, and now an EMT who helped him on the plane is feeling sick, according to news reports. Tony Aldapa and others performed CPR on Monday night on the fellow passenger who had a case of the virus that ended up killing him, KCAL-Channel 2 in Los Angeles reported. The United Airlines flight to Los Angeles made an emergency landing so the sick passenger could be taken to a hospital, where he died. On Tuesday, Louisiana authorities confirmed the passenger died of acute respiratory failure after cont......

Health officials are racing to contact those who traveled aboard a United Airlines plane after a passenger exhibiting coronavirus symptoms experienced a “medical emergency” during a flight from Orlando, Florida, to Los Angeles earlier this week and subsequently died. United Airlines flight 591 was forced to divert to New Orleans on Monday when a man aboard the aircraft became suddenly ill, according to USA Today. He was dropped off at an area hospital, where he later died, before the plane continued on to California. United is working with the government to notify passengers who may have been ......