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program. One of the things that I've been talking about, and I mean for years, is that every

building, every school, every floor of any, every commercial building should have a defibrillator on it.

They don't around here, and I think they did at one point, but there should be, it's like fire extinguishers.

There should be a defibrillator station and you break the glass or whatever.

So it is a law that airlines have to have defibrillators on them. There is a guy,

a young man actually, who went into cardiac arrest on an American airline flight to Florida,

and they took out, and he's right there, I mean, he was having a heart attack. And so, uh, the crew took out

the defibrillator on board the plane. And guess what? It wasn't charged. Kevin Greenridge was a

passenger on this flight when he suffered medical trauma and became unconscious, according to

the lawsuit that he filed or his family have filed.

And the lawsuit said his resulting death was, and I quote now, this is legal speak, this is the way law for, uh, lawsuits are written, caused holy and solely by reason of the carelessness,

recklessness, and negligence of the defendant American Airlines in its respective agent servants

and or employees and failing to maintain the automatic external defibrillator, the AED, on board

the flight, and failing to ensure that it was properly charged and the battery pack was working and it accuses

American Airlines of failing to train its employees with basic resuscitation technique.

Hmm. There's an Aviation Medical Assistant Act of 1998. The law requires airlines to carry defibrillators aboard each aircraft.

Flight attendants have to be trained. Devices have to be inspected regularly. Now here is the

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