British vacationer, 59, dies whereas on flight to Chile with spouse | EUROtoday

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A person believed to be a British vacationer has died whereas on a flight to Chile along with his spouse.

The 59-year-old and his companion have been travelling from the Falkland Islands to the southern Chilean metropolis of Punta Arenas on Saturday when the tragedy unfolded.

The holidaymaker handed away earlier than the airplane, which was operated by Chilean airline LATAM, landed.

He and his spouse had been set to take a second flight to the nation’s capital Santiago de Chile.

Chilean police from a murder unit met the plane when it arrived at Carlos Ibanez del Campo Airport.

Diego Díaz, Deputy Commissioner of the specialist unit based mostly in Punta Arenas, instructed native press: “On Saturday, on the instructions of local prosecutors, detectives from the Punta Arenas Homicide Brigade went to Carlos Ibanez del Campo Airport after a British tourist aged 59 died inside a plane while it was travelling from the Falkland Islands to Punta Arenas before his connecting flight to Santiago.”

Confirming officers had found nothing to counsel his dying had been the results of a criminal offense, Díaz added: “The man’s wife was interviewed and said he had several underlying health issues.”

A autopsy because of happen on Sunday or Monday is predicted to verify he died of pure causes.

The whereabouts of the unnamed man’s spouse on Sunday was not instantly clear.

It comes after a passenger died on board a Jet2 airplane final month, forcing the flight to divert.

The man was mentioned to have been discovered useless inside the bathroom on 2 January after fellow travellers seen the door had been locked for some time and alerted employees.

The flight, which was speculated to be travelling from Tenerife to Manchester, was pressured to land in Cork in Ireland as an alternative.

One passenger instructed the Mirror all these on board have been “very upset” by the devastating incident.