“We’re going to keep the focus on hoping the individual is doing okay,” a rep for Meyer says
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- A Wednesday flight from Texas to the Washington, D.C., area had to land early due to a passenger “medical emergency”
- Southwest Airlines says the passenger was attended to by a doctor on board as well as the flight attendants.
- Dakota Meyer, the Medal of Honor recipient and Marine reservist who shares two daughters with Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol, quickly jumped in to lend aid as well
A “medical emergency” struck a passenger on a Southwest flight earlier this week and another passenger — Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer — stepped in to help during the harrowing incident.
The mid-air episode unfolded on a jet bound from Austin, Texas, to the Washington, D.C., area early on Wednesday, May 27.
However, the plane was forced to divert and land early in Little Rock, Ark., “to address a medical emergency” involving a passenger, a Southwest spokesperson tells PEOPLE…