Via CBC News: Passengers who were aboard an Air Transat flight that nearly plunged into the Atlantic in 2001 while flying from Toronto to Lisbon are invited to participate in a study on how they dealt with the trauma.
Researchers at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute in Toronto are leading the study in partnership with the University of Toronto and McMaster University in Hamilton. They say it will be the first study of its kind to look at a large group of people who all experienced the same traumatic event under the same conditions.
On Aug. 24, 2001, Air Transat pilots made a risky glide into the Azores after the engines flamed out. An engine fuel leak forced the pilots to make an emergency landing.
Some of the 293 passengers on Air Transat Flight 236 suffered fractures and shock, but there were no deaths.
One of the researchers was a passenger on the flight.
"This wasn't just a close call where your life flashes before your eyes in a split second and then everything is OK," study investigator McMaster psychiatry Prof. Margaret McKinnon said in a release.
The feeling of impending death lasted an excruciating 30 minutes as the crew prepared passengers to ditch in the ocean, said McKinnon, who is also a research scientist at the Mood Disorders Program at St. Joseph's Healthcare in Hamilton. She studies patients who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety and other psychiatric conditions.
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Via CBC News: Passengers who were aboard an Air Transat flight that nearly plunged into the Atlantic in 2001 while flying from Toronto to Lisbon are invited to participate in a study on how they dealt with the trauma.
Researchers at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute in Toronto are leading the study in partnership with the University of Toronto and McMaster University in Hamilton. They say it will be the first study of its kind to look at a large group of people who all experienced the same traumatic event under the same conditions.
On Aug. 24, 2001, Air Transat pilots made a risky glide into the Azores after the engines flamed out. An engine fuel leak forced the pilots to make an emergency landing.
Some of the 293 passengers on Air Transat Flight 236 suffered fractures and shock, but there were no deaths.
One of the researchers was a passenger on the flight.
"This wasn't just a close call where your life flashes before your eyes in a split second and then everything is OK," study investigator McMaster psychiatry Prof. Margaret McKinnon said in a release.
The feeling of impending death lasted an excruciating 30 minutes as the crew prepared passengers to ditch in the ocean, said McKinnon, who is also a research scientist at the Mood Disorders Program at St. Joseph's Healthcare in Hamilton. She studies patients who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety and other psychiatric conditions.