8-year-old girl suffers medical emergency, dies while on fight to Chicago
CHICAGO â An 8-year-old girl died Thursday morning after suffering a medical emergency on a Skywest regional flight from Joplin, Missouri , to Chicago , according to authorities. The Peoria County Sheriff's Office said deputies responded to 6100 W. Everett McKinley Dirksen Parkway for a flight landing at the Peoria International Airport, where the flight from Missouri to Chicago was diverted due to a medical emergency.
After the plane landed, deputies, American Medical Technologists personnel, and Air National Guard Fire personnel immediately received and began performing life-saving measures on the girl. She was then taken to a local hospital by medical technologists, where she died. According to FlightView, Flight 1521 continued to Chicago's O'Hare Airport from Peoria and arrived just before 1:30 p.m.
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