Death in flight - Doctors and legal implications

Each week, somewhere in the world, one passenger dies on a plane flight. Death in flight is roughly six times more common than deaths in a plane crash. On average, one passenger dies in flight for every 7.6 million passengers carried. In a paper to be delivered at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) in Sydney (May 6) Dr Howard Roby, an Australian anaesthetist with post graduate qualifications in aerospace medicine, says there is no international convention relating to the legal implications of a death in flight.

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