A medical emergency occurred on a flight from Cologne-Bonn to Egypt.
A man died after a stopover.
Klagenfurt - Dramatic scenes took place shortly after take-off on board a Eurowings flight from Cologne-Bonn to the Egyptian holiday resort of Hurghada.
One passenger was killed.
Airplane drama: man dies after a medical emergency
On Saturday afternoon, the Eurowings plane took off from Cologne-Bonn with 178 passengers and four crew members.
But shortly after the start there was a medical emergency on board, as a company spokesman for the dpa announced.
A male passenger was immediately given medical care by the cabin crew on board during the flight.
The crew immediately decided to stop at the next possible airport, said the company spokesman.
At Klagenfurt Airport, the passenger was immediately taken care of by an emergency doctor.
Death on the vacation plane: the rest of the passengers are flown back
“Unfortunately the passenger died on site.
Eurowings extends its deepest condolences and condolences to the family, ”said the spokesman.
Out of consideration for privacy, he did not want to comment on any further details.
According to the
Bild
newspaper, the passenger was 71 years old and came from North Rhine-Westphalia.
On board the Airbus A320 were 178 passengers as well as four members of the cabin crew and two members of the cockpit crew, Eurowings said.
The aircraft with flight number EW 5110 flew back from Klagenfurt to Cologne-Bonn Airport.
The passengers were accommodated in a hotel until Sunday and started again on Sunday morning.
They landed in Hurghada in the morning.
It was only at the end of October that a passenger died on a flight from Istanbul to Hamburg.
(dpa)