According to the Manchester
Evening News, a medical team met the aircraft when it landed at around 7:30 AM,
and Manchester Police arrived at the scene shortly after 8am and confirmed that
there were no suspicious circumstances that led to the death of the elderly
passenger.
A passenger
on board an Emirates Airlines flight from Dubai to Manchester died, the airline
said on Monday, June 20.
“Emirates can confirm that
a passenger on board today’s Emirates flight EK 21 from Dubai to Manchester
passed away during the flight,” an Emirates spokesperson said. “‘Emirates
expresses its condolences to the family.”
A Greater Manchester Police
spokesman has been quoted in the media as stating the deceased person was an
elderly male passenger.
The cause of death has not
yet been confirmed but the passenger is understood to have been ill before
boarding the Emirates flight. All the passengers were reportedly removed from
the aircraft before the body of the deceased was taken away.
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