Back to the Soccer Newsfeed

Galaxy medical trainers help revive unconscious woman on team flight to New York

The American Airlines flight was diverted to Las Vegas where the woman, who had regained consciousness by that time, was met by paramedics and transported to a hospital. There were no further details on her condition.

The Airbus 321, which took off from L.A. International Airport at 9:20 a.m., was over Utah about an hour into its journey when Oka Nikolov, a Galaxy coach, noticed the woman was unconscious and unresponsive. When the flight attendant who came to check on the woman yelled out, "Code red," signifying a medical emergency, Pierra, the Galaxy's director of sports science, came to her aid.