Daughter to Pursue Legal Action Against Air Canada Following Father's Death, Accuses Airline of Ignoring Medical Emergency Mid-flight

83-year-old Harish Pant died on a 16-hour Air Canada flight from India to Canada; despite his daughter's urgent request to divert the flight due to his deteriorating health, the airline insists crews followed procedures and denies responsibility for his death.

• Shanu Pande, the daughter of the deceased, Harish Pant, insists that her father's life could have been saved if Air Canada had diverted the flight when he began to fall ill.
• Pant reportedly began experiencing singular and severe symptoms seven hours into the flight; among these symptoms were chest and back pain, vomiting, and loss of bowel control.
• Despite Pande's pleas to divert the flight and get Pant to a hospital, Air Canada apparently continued the flight to its planned destination in Montreal, where paramedics tended to Pant before he was pronounced dead in a hospital.
• Air Canada has rejected Pande's accusations, claiming that they followed the required procedures in response to Pant's critical health situation, i.e., relocating him to a reclining seat in the business cabin and continuous care throughout the flight.
• Air Canada also stated that they were in constant contact with a third-party medical provider throughout the flight, and were advised not to divert the flight, despite Pande's claims that her father exhibited symptoms of a heart attack.
• Pande is pursuing legal action against Air Canada seeking answers as to why the flight was not diverted despite her father's critical condition.

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