A Jet2 plane made an emergency landing after a passenger died onboard a flight from Tenerife to Nottingham yesterday.
The plane, which was making its way to the UK, was diverted to mainland Spain on Friday afternoon after a man, thought to be in his 70s, died.
It is still unknown what country the passenger, who was declared dead upon touchdown, originated from.
Local news outlets reported that the LS676 aircraft started its journey from the Canary Islands at 7:05 p.m. before the emergency was announced on the Jet2 flight.
The crew alerted air traffic control that a man was in critical condition and required immediate assistance, according to Diario de Avisos.
The jet was forced to touchdown at Santiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport, so emergency services could attend to the person.
When the ambulance arrived at the terminal in the capital of Galicia, the guy was declared dead.
MailOnline has approached Jet2 and the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office for comment.
This person was obviously still alive when they decided to divert the aircraft, and they managed to speak to a medical team down on the ground who would have instructed them on what to do. Flight deck and crew are not doctors, they can give CPR and attempt to do everything in their power to keep someone alive. Even if there had been a doctor on the aeroplane who was a passenger, they could have only done so much to keep the person alive.
This is extremely sad. Anyone can become unwell on an aircraft. The person has now passed away, and all I can say is condolences to his family and loved ones.
There is a lot of stress involved in jet travel, so people becoming unwell is not surprising. Travelling can be very shattering.
At present there is no indication as to what the person died of. For all we know, he could have had some highly infectious disease or it could have just been a heart attack. Whatever this poor individual died from, they would have had to have been medically examined after there was confirmation of death.
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