Midair Attacks
But when the doctors asked for the plane’s medical kit, they were appalled at its contents–allergy drugs, nitroglycerine, some syringes, a stethoscope, a few other items. The available equipment “was worse than what a patient would find in the Third World,” said Dr. Martin Leon, a senior cardiologist at New York’s Lenox Hill hospital. The surgeons couldn’t do much, and the plane, Continental Flight 320, had to land in Denver, where the man was rushed to a hospital....