The Australian Jewish News; jewishnews.net.au
IT’S not the usual way to get a business class upgrade. But then, it’s not every day you’re called upon to keep an ailing fellow passenger alive.
Kate Kessel, a registered nurse at Sydney’s St Vincent’s Hospital, was four hours into a flight from Bangkok to Tel Aviv with husband Noel, a former AJN photographer, and children when an Israeli man in his 70s a few rows behind them became seriously ill.