The Air Air Force veteran who died of a heart attack after a crew of American Airlines, who is said to be delayed, calling for help until the whole aircraft split up for the “stunning” detention that continues to pursue them.
In an exclusive interview with IndependentJohn William Cannon’s relatives said they were still struggling to process an unthinkable tragedy.
“He was treated as an object,” said Cannon Kyle’s son. “They don’t even give him a chance.”
The 62-year-old was traveling on connecting flights from his home in Louisville, Kentucky to Durango, a small town in southwestern Colorado for a funeral when he underwent a “medical crisis” at the last Dallas Fort-Surot trip on April 28, 2023.
According to an unlawful death case brought against American Airlines by Kyle, who is also the executor of his father’s estate, Cannon went out to Jetway while he was coming out of his first flight, but was still allowed to contact his relationship with Durango. In points during the two -hour and twenty minutes of journey, he was in apparent suffering and struggled to breathe and fall out of consciousness.
John William Cannon’s sister waved him at the airport, unaware that this would be the last time he saw him (provided by the family of the cannon / The Independent)
However, the crew waited until the aircraft landed in Colorado by taxing the gate and all the other passengers came out before calling for help, according to the case, which was first reported by IndependentS
The father of one – described by his family as a “very loving man” and an avid outdoor man who liked to deal with cars and motorcycles and had no history of heart problems – he entered the cardiac arrest at the back of the ambulance and died several hours later in the hospital.
The 28 -year -old Kyle Cannon said he just couldn’t understand the delay in calling for help – a solution that he described as “stunning.”
“I will be out in the field, thinking and I just can’t wrap my head around him,” said Kyle, a farmer in Kentucky. “When you have someone on board who is in a critical shape, you have to do everything you have to get that person you need help. He had to be the first person on the plane, but he was the last person. It’s hard to believe that this could actually happen. But it happened.”
In the two years after Cannon’s death, his family was left to try to gather exactly what happened on this flight. It is said that American Airlines is less than the upcoming and what they have learned has brought them a little comfort.
“Trying to bring it together and try to make sense and we hoped that they tried to save him, and then with any information we would reveal, he just got worse and worse and worse and worse,” Kyle said.
Kennan Kate’s aunt, Kennan Kate’s sister, said it was one of the most strict parts of the bounce back.
“We were hoping to find answers and IndependentS “It just breaks you by experiencing it again and again.”
The situation is a “simply epic collapse” from beginning to end, said Cannon’s other sister, Molly.
She had seen him at Louisvil’s airport in the morning of his death and recalled her brother’s final wave as he went through security.
“I was the last person to see him alive – he turned when he was going through security and waving. I didn’t know that it would be the last time I would see him. I couldn’t get it out of my mind,” she told her, “she told IndependentS
Her brother had a “sense of humor like no other,” Molly said.
“He loved people, always worked with people, and he was a very loving person,” she continued. “He took a lot of care. He had a big heart. As a teenager, he was really engaged in motorcycles, both motorcycles and motorcycles.
In the two years after Cannon’s death, his family was left to try to gather exactly what happened on this flight. They say American Airlines is less than the upcoming and what they have learned has brought them some comfort (getty images)
The three lost their mother at the age of 89, a year before Cannon’s death. But, said Molly, the loss of brothers “is a different feeling. It just blows you out of the water.”
Molly initially worried about Cannon’s whereabouts after failing to contact her when he reached Durango, where he headed for the funeral of his best friend’s partner. She started calling her brother’s phone constantly, to no avail. So, around 10:00 pm, she tried to call the friend who had to take it at the airport. But he also failed to take, Molly said.
Then, around midnight, a woman finally answered Kennon’s phone. It was a nurse at Mercy Medical Center, who said Cannon was in severe form. Molly immediately contacted Kate, who said that none of them “has no idea what to do.” The two started booking flights to reach Durango the next morning, so they could be by their brother’s side as he recovered. Then, shortly after they have their tickets in their hand, the phone rang.
“The hospital called us and they said,” If you want to say goodbye to your brother, we will keep the phone to his ear, “Kate recalled, describing the moment as an alternative” very surreal “and” unimaginable. “
She had tears in her eyes as she shared these last moments: “The last minutes when he was dying, we said,” I love you, John, I will miss you, John. Soon, even than I love you, I will miss you so much. “
Kate said she was experiencing the situation again and again in his mind. She hates to think about her suffering brother and finds holidays without him particularly difficult.
“I just have to be grateful for the time we had with him, but I definitely feel robbed for the time we didn’t do,” she saidS
The weekend after Cannon’s death, Molly talks to a nurse at the hospital, who told her about medicines that brought her brother, seemed “injured” by the way the situation was doing.
“They see a lot really, really horrific things, and to say this, it really talks about how bad it was,” Kyle said, adding that the first responders are encouraging the family to judge.
Kyle believes that his father had to be sent to the hospital and not be allowed to get on his connecting flight after polluting in Dallas in Dallas. That, Kyle claims, “probably would save his life.”
“We would like an American to show some reporting so that it doesn’t happen to someone else,” he said. “We can’t bring it back, but if it can save someone else’s life, you would like it.”
The trial of the family struck an American for not providing Cannon with first aid while on board, fails to transfer it to a doctor in a timely manner and “fails to prioritize … the cannon in the debbarning process after he exposed signs of extreme physical suffering on board the aircraft.”
Cabine crews have been trained in CPR, and all commercial airlines have been required since 2004 to carry defibrillators on board, family lawyer Joseph Loruso told IndependentS
“Nobody expects the flight attendant to be a doctor, but at least you have to try a recovery,” he said.
An email said a spokesman for American Airlines Independent“We are reviewing the complaint.”