I can't believe Bethune was personally involved in this one and didn't have the aircraft land for a medical emergency. I bet the undisclosed settlement was sizeable...... Jose Prize Fan of Bethune until reading this In a message dated 1/22/2002 4:18:51 PM Eastern Standard Time, lafrance@verizon.net writes: > Subj:[Sky-1] Judge Dismisses Stroke Lawsuit > Date:1/22/2002 4:18:51 PM Eastern Standard Time > From:<A HREF="mailto:lafrance@verizon.net";>lafrance@verizon.net</A> > Reply-to:<A HREF="mailto:Skyone@yahoogroups.com";>Skyone@yahoogroups.com</A> > To:<A HREF="mailto:Skyone@yahoogroups.com";>Skyone@yahoogroups.com</A>, <A HREF="mailto:airline@listserv.cuny.edu";>airline@listserv.cuny.edu</A> > Sent from the Internet > > Judge Dismisses Stroke Lawsuit > Tuesday January 22, 2:32 PM EST > > TULSA, Okla., Jan 22, 2002 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- A federal judge > dismissed a lawsuit accusing Continental Airlines of continuing a > three-hour > flight after a passenger suffered a stroke. An attorney for the passenger's > widow would not say if the airline had offered a settlement. > > Mary McCaskey claimed that her husband, Ralph McCaskey, 77, suffered a > stroke 20 to 30 minutes into a flight from Houston to Newark, N.J., in > 1998. > She said she sat helpless for hours before the plane landed. > > Airline personnel gave him oxygen but no other assistance, the lawsuit > claimed. > > Ralph McCaskey died 16 days later from complications from the stroke, > according to the lawsuit. > > Mary McCaskey's attorney Bruce McKenna would not say why the lawsuit was > dismissed Jan. 11 or whether a settlement had been reached. However, a > court > document filed Jan. 10 said Mary McCaskey did not object to the dismissal. > > Continental did not immediately return a call seeking comment Tuesday. > > McCaskey sued both Continental and the airline's chairman, Gordon Bethune. > The lawsuit alleged that Bethune was on the flight "and was expressly aware > of Ralph McCaskey's condition at or shortly after its onset and entered the > cockpit during a time when decisions regarding Ralph McCaskey's care and > medical needs were ongoing."