Executive Summary - Fss.aero

Findings
1. The captain held a physical certificate and a certificate of the aircraft rating
issued by Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA). The physical certificate
showed no specific restrictions or any record of waiver. (1.5.1)
2. According to the data of his heavy weight, age, hyper lipidemia and smoking
habit in his physical examination record, the pilot was grouping to a high
potential cardiac patient. (1.13.3,1.13.4)
3. The incapacitated pilot made no remarkable improvement to the suggestions
of the physical examination doctors. (1.13.3).
4. There was no pilot’s medical history dated before his coming to work in
Taiwan.
5. The track cardiograph of the pilot physical examination record showed no
symptoms of myocardial infarct. The Aviation Medical Center did not have
to conduct the follow-ups in accordance with the Procedures of Physical
Examination of CAA. (1.13.5,2.2.6)
6. The pilot’s working hours, flying hours, and Rest time were totally in
accordance with CAA laws. The flight crew who flew with the said pilot in
one or two days before the incident said that he did not exhibit any
irregularity at work. (1.5.2)
7. The medication the captain carried with him showed no toxic ingredients or
any cardiac-healing medicaments. (2.1.1)
8. The cause of death of the pilot was coronary artery occlusion, i.e., a natural
death. (2.1.2)
9. The first officer conducted the flight with autopilot. The weather of the day
was fair and the aircraft was in airworthiness condition. Before the incident,
no flight crew had extra workload and the captain was under regular pressure
of work. (1.1,1.6.2)
10. When the pilot incapacitation happened, the first officer proceeded with the
airlines' incapacitation procedures and landed the aircraft safely with auto-
land system at CKS International Airport. However, the first officer failed to
use emergency phraseology to report the serious incident. (1.1,1.15.2,1.15.6)
11. As the captain experienced the incapacitation, the flight attendants that
entered into the cockpit had good cooperation with one another and kept
performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to the captain. (1.15.3)
12. The doctor on board performed first aid to the captain and found that the
captain had incontinence of urine, mydriasis, no heartbeat and pulse reaction.
(1.15.3)
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