A Lufthansa airplane. Picture from Lufthansa web site
A 63-year-old man handed away on a Lufthansa flight from Thailand to Germany following a extreme medical incident the place he expelled liters of blood.
Regardless of the efforts of the flight crew and an onboard physician, the person handed away midflight, ensuing within the airplane returning to Bangkok Worldwide Airport about an hour and a half after takeoff, Fox Enterprise reported Feb. 12.
“He had chilly sweats, was respiration a lot too rapidly, and was already apathetic,” nursing specialist Karin Missfelder, a passenger on the airplane, informed Swiss outlet Blick in regards to the man within the row in entrance of her.
She famous the person’s spouse talked about that they had rushed to catch the flight, which could have exacerbated his situation.
A Polish physician on the flight tried to evaluate and help him, even because the flight attendants carried out resuscitation efforts for thirty minutes with out success. The captain ultimately introduced the person’s demise to the passengers.
Following the incident, the plane returned to Bangkok, the place passengers had been rebooked on different flights.