A 63-year-old man died on a Lufthansa flight this week. He lost a lot of blood, which scared the other passengers.
A passenger who was on the same plane said blood came out from the man’s mouth and nose, and it got on the walls of the plane.
The unidentified man boarded a Lufthansa flight from Bangkok to Munich with his wife on Thursday, according to Swiss-German outlet Blick.
What happened in flight ?
The co-passenger Martin and Karin Missfelder saw the man and his wife sitting in front of them on the plane. Karin noticed the man seemed sick when they got on the plane.
“He had cold sweats” and “was breathing much too quickly,” Karin Missfelder said in a translated quote.
Karin Missfelder, a nurse at a hospital in Switzerland, was worried about a man on the flight. She told a flight attendant to get a doctor. The captain came and talked to the man.
Then, the captain asked for a doctor over the speakers. A young man from Poland, who didn’t speak much English, checked on the sick man.
The doctor only checked the man’s pulse and asked how he felt. But the Lufthansa Flight Passenger got worse quickly.
They gave him some chamomile tea, but he was already spitting blood into a bag. Blood came out of his nose and mouth, and it went everywhere.
Martin Missfelder said it was horrible. Everyone was screaming. Flight attendants tried to help the man. Karin Missfelder said it was silent on the plane.
Flight data show it left Bangkok at 11:50 p.m. Thursday and landed back in Thailand at 8:28 a.m. Friday.
There, the passengers said they had to wait two hours without any guidance from Lufthansa before they were finally booked on another flight to Germany, with a stopover in Hong Kong.