A Jet2 flight from Tenerife was forced to make an emergency landing after a passenger died onboard.
Flight LS676 took off at 7.05pm on Friday and was bound for Nottingham, but was forced to divert to mainland Spain after a passenger suffered a fatal medical emergency. The traveller is understood to be in his 70s, however, as reported by the Mirror, his nationality is not yet known.
Island newspaper Diario de Avisos said crew members had alerted air traffic control that a man on the plane required urgent medical attention. Following an emergency landing at Santiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport, the man was handed over to the emergency services. Sadly, despite immediate treatment on arrival, he was tragically pronounced dead on the runway.
The local paper said: “A flight covering the Tenerife South-Nottingham route has been diverted on Friday afternoon to Santiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport due to the indisposition of a passenger, who has finally died. The flight crew reported that they had a passenger with significant medical problems on board and need to be urgently diverted to the Compostela airport (on the Spanish mainland).
“An ambulance from the Galician Health Emergency Service-061 was sent to the terminal in the Galician capital, whose medical staff confirmed the death of a man in his 70s.”