2024 Tuesday: captain of Airbus A350 died during flight over Greenland, co-pilots diverted jet to New York

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Incident: THY A359 near New York on Oct 8th 2024, captain died in flight

A THY Turkish Airlines Airbus A350-900,
registration TC-LGR performing flight TK-204 from Seattle,WA (USA) to Istanbul (Turkey),

was enroute at FL390 over Greenland (Denmark) when the captain (59) became incapacitated

prompting the crew to divert the aircraft to New York's JFK Airport,
where the aircraft landed about 3.5 hours later.

The captain was pronounced dead upon arrival.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1jd7dg5z5lo
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https://www.turkiyetoday.com/turkiye/tu ... ing-63079/

Captain Ilcehin Pehlivan, 59, collapsed mid-air and a second pilot and co-pilot took over the controls, an airline spokesman said on X.

Flight TK204 took off from Seattle shortly after 19:00 on Tuesday evening.
The pilot appears to have got into trouble over the Canadian territory of Nunavut,
before his colleagues took over and headed for John F Kennedy airport.

Pehlivan had flown with Turkish Airlines since 2007
and had been given a regular health check in early March,
which found no health problem that might affect his job, the airline said.