Man Airlifted off Disney Magic

Youch. Hip and leg injury requiring an evac makes me cringe. Hope he is feeling better now. I know a couple people on that cruise.
 
I feel so bad for his family. It must have happened right at the start of the Transatlantic(?). What a sad way to end something they must have been looking forward to for a long time. And a reminder of how important it is to have insurance.
 

Makes you wonder what happens to family (fellow travelers) in circumstances where one person is evacuated. Can you imagine being separated at a time like that?
 
Oh no, how terrible. I'm glad he's stable, my heart goes out to him and his family / friends. Thanks for posting the link, the AP blurb I read this morning had minimal info. We know people on this cruise as well, so the article caught my eye.
 
And a reminder of how important it is to have insurance.

I completely agree -- that was the 2nd thing I thought of when I read the article (1. I really hope he's okay!, 2. I hope he has trip insurance). People think that because they are young and healthy, they don't need trip insurance. This passenger was only 29 years old...proving that "stuff happens" even if you are young. The costs of an airlift can be astronomical.

I hope he has a speedy recovery. Poor guy.
 
Makes you wonder what happens to family (fellow travelers) in circumstances where one person is evacuated. Can you imagine being separated at a time like that?

When they airlifted the gentleman back in February from Castaway Cay, his wife and daughter were allowed on the helicopter with him. One of the ship's doctors went as well. I don't know what they do if it's a basket lift, though.
 
They won't take family in a situation like this. I wonder if they'll get off in New York. We don't know who he was traveling with. If it was friends, they may stay on? I feel sorry for all of them. What should be a joyful time, turned bad.
I'm also curious about where and how he fell to be injured so badly. Poor guy!
 
I was curious about that too, MelSpees. Didn't they say his age was 29? Not like he was a codger with brittle bones. Perhaps it was just one of those freak things. I had a neighbor that simply stepped off her back porch and hit just wrong and fractured the dickens out of her ankle.

As for this guy's family/friends, do I recall seeing that some travel insurances will pay for one family member to fly to accompany someone that has to be medivac'd out?
 
And a reminder of how important it is to have insurance.


I knew someone would post this. :-)

If this is your fear then yes, buy insurance. Statistically speaking this is extremely rare.

We've been on 15 cruises x 2,500 people per cruise = 37,000 people and there has NEVER been a single helicopter evacuation from any cruise we've ever taken. 0 out of 37,000....you can't even make a fraction or percentage out of that ratio.
 
Wondering what the rest of the story is:

Coastguard contacted at 5am? He had to be hurt in the middle of the night......
Both legs and hip? He had to have fallen down some stairs somehow, fell from like deck 10 to deck 9, or jumped from something.
 
Wondering what the rest of the story is:

Coastguard contacted at 5am? He had to be hurt in the middle of the night......
Both legs and hip? He had to have fallen down some stairs somehow, fell from like deck 10 to deck 9, or jumped from something.

I was wondering what may have happened too. The photo in the article shows him on the deck by the crew member pool. It's possible that they moved him there becaus that's where they take someone who needs to be airlifted off the boat but I don't know the procedure. If they are there because that's where the injury happened, however, he may have fallen from above or something like that.
 
yes, I noticed the area also. It's a great place for the helicopter to retrieve people. Don't know if they had moved him to there or the accident occurred there. I would assume they transported him there and readied him for transport. That's probably the most open part of the ship for that kind of maneuver.
 

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