# Incident 20210911017939I: Bombardier Inc CL-600-2D24, Richmond, VA, September 11, 2021

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: September 11, 2021, 20:07 local time
- Place: Richmond, VA
- Airport: Richmond International. Airport
- Damage: No damage
- Phase of flight: Cruise/Level Flight
- Operating rules: Air carrier (Part 121)
- Operator: VNAA
- Location: 37.5052° N, 77.3197° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at RICHMOND INTL (RIC), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=37.5052&lon=-77.3197&mi=10
- Aircraft: N568NN, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N568NN) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Bombardier CL-600-2D24 (registry code 1390016, https://openairdocs.org/model/bombardier-cl-600-2d24) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: GE CF34-8C5 (registry code 30050, https://openairdocs.org/engine/ge-cf34-8c5) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: BOMBARDIER INC CL-600-2D24
- Reported engine: GE CF34
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Airline transport
- Pilot flight hours: 1,841 in this make and model, 167 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20210911017939I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 11, 2021 ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^FLYING FROM KCLT TO KBGR DIVERTED TO KRIC DUE TO CAPTAIN ILLNESS AND BECOMING INCAPACITATED FOR A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. DISPATCH WAS NOTIFIED OF THE DIVERSION VIA ACARS WHEN THE FIRST OFFICER SENT MESSAGE STATING THAT FLIGHT WAS DIVERTING DUE TO CAPTAIN?S ILLNESS.

CAPTAIN: BECAME ILL (NAUSEOUS) WHILE FLYING. PROCEEDED TO LAVATORY AND BECAME VERY ILL. INFORMED FLIGHT ATTENDANT PRIOR TO RETURNING TO COCKPIT THAT THE LAVATORY WOULD NEED TO BE CLOSED FOR HAZMAT. CAPTAIN STATED THAT HE BECAME FAINT AFTER RETURNING TO COCKPIT AND BECAME UNRESPONSIVE ACCORDING TO FIRST OFFICER. REGAINED CONSCIOUSNESS AND INFORMED FIRST OFFICER HE NEEDED HELP. FIRST OFFICER THEN DECLARED A MEDICAL EMERGENCY AND SELECTED KRIC AS THE AIRPORT TO DIVERT TO.

FIRST OFFICER: AFTER CAPTAIN RETURNED TO COCKPIT HE BECAME UNRESPONSIVE FOR A SHORT PERIOD. FIRST OFFICER INSTRUCTED FLIGHT ATTENDANTS TO INQUIRE IF THERE WERE ANY MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS ONBOARD FLIGHT. THERE WAS ONE PASSENGER/MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL WHO CAME FORWARD TO ASSIST. ASKED THE SYMPTOMS OF THE CAPTAIN BUT NO EMERGENCY EQUIPMENT WAS USED. CAPTAIN BEGIN TO FEEL BETTER AND WAS ABLE TO COMPLETE HIS DUTIES DURING THE DESCENT AS THE NON-FLYING PILOT. ALL CHECKLISTS WERE COMPLIED WITH AND THE CAPTAIN WAS ABLE TO TAXI AIRCRAFT TO GATE AFTER FIRST OFFICER LANDED AIRCRAFT. THE CAPTAIN RECEIVED MEDICAL ATTENTION AT THE GATE WHERE HE DECLINED TO SEEK FURTHER MEDICAL ATTENTION AT THE HOSPITAL.

FLIGHT CREW WAS REMOVED FROM FLIGHT AND TRAVELLED TO A HOTEL FOR THE OVERNIGHT STAY IN RIC. THEY WERE REPLACED BY AN INBOUND CREW TO KRIC WHO THEN TOOK THE AIRCRAFT AND PASSENGERS ON TO KBGR.

CAPTAIN WAS REMOVED FROM FLYING STATUS AFTER RETURNING TO THEIR DOMICILE FOR FURTHER MEDICAL EVALUATION PRIOR TO RETURNING TO LINE FLYING. CAPTAIN WAS EVALUATED RECENTLY BY AME AND ISSUED NEW FIRST CLASS MEDICAL^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

NTSB WAS NOTIFIED.

CAMI WAS NOTIFIED.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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