BWI - some sort of mass casualty flight inbound: due in @approx 13:30 gate C3.

[maus92]

140 souls on board. *Might* be a coronavirus panic. Ops on BWI system TG 12 (which I cannot monitor.) . Hearing snippets on the BWI TGs on the AACo system.

Apparently a Southwest flight. Wants the cabin door to remain closed.

 

[maus92]

Does sound like one pt., with others that may need evaluation. Several "medical directors" and hospitals have been pre-alerted.

 

[maus92]

Awaiting arrival of specialized team from Hopkins, approx 1420.

 

[maus92]

Some radios configured differently....

 

[NC1]

Certainly sounds like something to be concerned about. Any flight number?
Keep us updated.

 

[maus92]

AACo units released

 

[maus92]

It was a Coronavirus scare. The patient had been screened in Mexico and Las Vegas, and now at BWI and was determined to be clear.

Ill patient taken off plane at BWI Airport did not meet criteria for coronavirus testing, Maryland officials say

State medical officials in Maryland say a patient who had recently traveled to China and was showing flu-like symptoms was taken off a Southwest Airlines flight at BWI Airport outside Baltimore on Saturday afternoon, but did not meet federal criteria for coronavirus testing and has since been...

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