“Were you on United flight 2640 on Tuesday, April 9th???”

photo by Nathan Castellanos

“Dear PoPville,

My best friend’s dad was on United Flight 2640, from Chicago to DCA, on Tuesday afternoon in seat 11C. During the flight he suffered what appeared to be a seizure and the young man sitting next to him called for help and was adamant that this was a life threatening situation. When they landed at DCA he was taken off the plane by the airport EMS team and rushed to GW Hospital.

ER doctors quickly discovered that he had an aortic dissection and was rushed into emergency open heart surgery. It was nothing short of a miracle that he made it into surgery (the medical staff gave him a 50% chance of making it through surgery). He has since woken up, eaten some ice cream, and even taken a few steps!! Since waking up from surgery, my best friend’s dad has asked numerous times for us to find and contact the young man sitting next to him.

Here’s where you come in! I’m hoping that one of your amazing followers was on the plane, knows someone on the plane, works for United, or somehow can figure out who was sitting next to him so he can thank him for his help in saving his life.

All we have to go on is that he was sitting in seat 11B, was a young man (maybe in his early 20’s), caucasian, reddish hair, was possibly military or federal law enforcement (he boarded early, but was not in uniform).”