Passenger dies on Lufthansa flight

LUFTHANSA AIRBUS A380-841 D-AIMA (MSN 038)

A passenger on board a Lufthansa flight travelling from Bangkok (BKK/VTBS) to Munich (MUC/ EDDM) has died during the flight after he began feeling unwell and bleeding from his mouth and nose.

Passengers were left “traumatised” after the German man began coughing up blood before collapsing and dying next to his wife mid-air during the flight on Thursday night. 

Fellow passengers on board the Lufthansa flight LH773 said the man was suffering “cold sweats” and “breathing rapidly”. The man began bleeding from his mouth and nose, with an off-duty nurse telling plane staff the man urgently needed medical assistance.

The pilot reportedly called for any doctors on board to make themselves known. A Polish medic then came forward to assess the man and gave him the all clear.

Passenger Martin Missfelder said the man was given chamomile tea but was still spitting blood into a bag given to him by his wife. Then the man’s condition then rapidly deteriorated, and he began coughing up “litres of blood” before collapsing.

“He keeps spitting into the bag — and finally a gush of blood comes out of his mouth and nose,” Missfelder told reports.

“It was absolute horror, everyone was screaming.”

Flight staff performed CPR on the man for 30 minutes, but he could not be saved, and his body was taken to the back of the plane, it was reported.

The flight detoured back to Bangkok and the passengers put on another flight.

Aircraft Information:

Airline: Lufthansa

Code: LH/DLH

Aircraft: Airbus A380-841

Registration: D-AIML

Serial Number: 149

Engine: 4 X RR Trent 970
First Flew: 11/12/2013

Age: 10.2 Yrs. 

OUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS GO OUT TO THE MANS FAMILY AND FRIENDS 

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