A JET2 plane was forced to make an emergency landing after a holidaymaker died onboard.
The aircraft, flying from Tenerife to the UK, was forced to divert to the Spanish mainland on Friday evening after a passenger suffered a fatal medical emergency.
The nationality of the passenger isn’t known, but he was reported to be in his 70s.
The plane, bound for Nottingham, took off from the Canary Island at 7:05pm when an emergency was declared, island newspaper Diario de Avisos reported this morning.
The crew of flight LS676 alerted air traffic control that a man on board was suffering a severe medical emergency and needed urgent attention.
The plane was forced land at Santiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport to get the man into the care of the emergency services.
Despite immediate treatment on hand, the man was sadly pronounced dead upon arrival on the runway.
The local paper reported: “A flight on route from Tenerife South to Nottingham was been diverted on Friday afternoon to Santiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport due to the illness of a passenger, who eventually died.”
“The flight crew reported they had a passenger with serious medical problems on board and need to be urgently diverted to the Compostela airport.
“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.”
