Executive Summary - Fss.aero

1.1 History of Flight
Chapter 1 Factual Information
When cruising at 31,000 feet after taking off at 0746 Note local time on May 8,
2000, with destination of Ho-Chi-Minh City, Vietnam, the first officer of China
Airlines' flight CI681, an A300-600R with No. B-18503, who was on control of the
flight, found out that the captain, who had just finished a passenger address when the
aircraft was turning from PARPA to KAPLI at 0815, was not right and showed no
response to the first officer's two calls. The first officer then carried out the
procedures of crewmember incapacitation and asked the chief flight attendant to reach
the cockpit. Once in the cockpit, the chief flight attendant tried to wake up the captain
and patted his face. Without having any response from the captain, another flight
attendant was asked in with an oxygen cylinder to help remove the captain from his
seat onto the forward galley floor. At the same time, a passenger address was made by
the cabin crew to ask for a doctor on board to provide assistance. The first officer then
made the decision of turning back to Taipei CKS Airport. With the help of the
volunteered doctor on board, the flight attendants kept on performing CPR to the
captain.
At 0816, the first officer advised Taipei Regional Control Center of the
captain's incapacitation, though he failed to use "emergency" terms. At 0821, the first
officer then advised Asian Dispatch Center of Joint Control, China Airlines and asked
towing vehicle and ambulance to stand by.
At 0831, during the turning back, the first officer made a request to the air
traffic controllers for first priority. During the approach, the air traffic controllers
assigned the aircraft to use Runway 06 for the aircraft had been assigned to park at the
south-parking bay. After making anther request by the first officer, the Runway 05
Left was assigned to the CI681. At 0850, the first officer landed the aircraft on
Runway 05 Left on autopilot and then stopped at N7 taxiway and was waiting for
towing vehicles to bay 608. Before landing of the aircraft, airport ambulances, doctors
and nurses from the contracted hospital were already standing by at parking bay 608.
The towing vehicle arrived at 0901. At 0904 it began towing the aircraft
eastward by passing through the taxiway to arrive the parking bay 608 at 0920. The
contracted physicians and first-aid personnel embarked the aircraft to carry out the
rescue effort. At 0938 the captain was carried on board of the ambulance and at 0947
reached MinShen Hospital, Tao Yuan. At 1020, the captain was announced dead in
that hospital.
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