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As long as the Lee family, the Brunei family, and the Chinese President and PM are not affected, SIA will never lose its sheen.
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By Monica Kotwani | Posted: 17 April 2011 1802 hrs <LINK rel=image_src href="http://www.channelnewsasia.com/imagegallery/store/phpgFG32y.jpg">
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SINGAPORE : Singapore Airlines (SIA) could face legal action from a BBC radio presenter over the way it handled his medical condition during a flight in March.
According to a report in Britain's 'Daily Mail' on Sunday, Max Pearson was on a connecting flight from Singapore to London, having flown in from Tokyo.
He had been covering the Japan earthquake and tsunami for a week.
According to the report, not long after the plane took off, Mr Pearson suffered a heart attack.
The report said the cabin crew allegedly refused requests to divert the plane to the nearest hospital for him to receive medical attention.
Instead, the 51-year-old had to endure a 14-hour flight to London's Heathrow Airport on March 18.
He was rushed to a hospital and given emergency surgery.
The report said Mr Pearson was in hospital for over a week.
The report quoted Mr Pearson's colleagues as saying that he suffered long-term heart damage as a result of the incident.
The report also quoted a BBC source as saying that Mr Pearson was lucky to survive, as it appeared that a passenger who is a doctor attended to him during the flight.
"He says he asked for them to redirect him to hospital but it didn't happen. After that, it was touch-and-go whether he was going to make the 14-hour flight, but amazingly he did," the BBC source was quoted as saying in the Daily Mail report.
"Max is still very poorly and is considering taking legal action against Singapore Airlines," the source added.
When contacted by MediaCorp on Sunday, an SIA spokesman said the airline is not able to comment on individual cases.
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SINGAPORE : Singapore Airlines (SIA) could face legal action from a BBC radio presenter over the way it handled his medical condition during a flight in March.
According to a report in Britain's 'Daily Mail' on Sunday, Max Pearson was on a connecting flight from Singapore to London, having flown in from Tokyo.
He had been covering the Japan earthquake and tsunami for a week.
According to the report, not long after the plane took off, Mr Pearson suffered a heart attack.
The report said the cabin crew allegedly refused requests to divert the plane to the nearest hospital for him to receive medical attention.
Instead, the 51-year-old had to endure a 14-hour flight to London's Heathrow Airport on March 18.
He was rushed to a hospital and given emergency surgery.
The report said Mr Pearson was in hospital for over a week.
The report quoted Mr Pearson's colleagues as saying that he suffered long-term heart damage as a result of the incident.
The report also quoted a BBC source as saying that Mr Pearson was lucky to survive, as it appeared that a passenger who is a doctor attended to him during the flight.
"He says he asked for them to redirect him to hospital but it didn't happen. After that, it was touch-and-go whether he was going to make the 14-hour flight, but amazingly he did," the BBC source was quoted as saying in the Daily Mail report.
"Max is still very poorly and is considering taking legal action against Singapore Airlines," the source added.
When contacted by MediaCorp on Sunday, an SIA spokesman said the airline is not able to comment on individual cases.
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