LA505 - Incident: LATAM B789 near Panama City on Aug 14th 2023
Created Tuesday, Aug 15th 2023 16:39Z, last updated Thursday, Aug 17th 2023 08:42Z
A LATAM Boeing 787-9, registration CC-BGI performing flight LA-505 from Miami,FL (USA) to Santiago de Chile (Chile), was enroute at FL370 about 120nm north of Panama City (Panama) when the aircraft set course to divert to Panama City reporting one of the captain's on board had been incapacitated. The aircraft landed safely on Panama City's runway 03L about 28 minutes later. The captain was pronounced dead upon arrival.
The aircraft is still on the ground in Panama City about 12 hours after landing.
Passengers reported they were dropped off in Panama City with no LATAM staff around and left without information, apparently the captain had died.
The Aviation Herald learned that one of the captains on board had become incapacitated in flight and was pronounced dead upon arrival.
The airline reported there were one captain and two first officers on board of the aircraft. The captain went to the toilet and never returned to the cockpit, cabin crew tried to resuscitate the captain until landing in Panama City.
Source: The Aviation Herald