A man dies on the flight from Bangkok to Munich after expelling "a stream of blood from his mouth and nose"

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Updated Monday, February 12, 2024-10:07

A 63-year-old man died on a Lufthansa Airbus A380 flight from Bangkok to Munich when he went into shock and ended up expelling "a stream of blood from his mouth and nose," according to the news agency. swiss news

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Karin, 55, a specialist nurse at the University Hospital of Zurich, was on flight LH773, along with her husband Martin Missfelder, 53, both from the Swiss canton of Birmensdorf, recounted

the horror experienced on the plane.

"I had cold sweats, I was breathing too fast and I was already apathetic," says Karin, who saw the situation from her seat. When asked by the Lufthansa flight attendant if she was feeling well, the woman, a Filipino, explained that they had run a lot to avoid missing the plane and that because of that extra effort her partner was not feeling well.

The nurse intervened and told the flight attendant that the man needed a doctor. "Then he called a doctor on the loudspeaker and a young Polish man in his 30s, who spoke bad English, looked at the German," explains Karin.

According to her, the doctor took her pulse, asked her how she was feeling and gave her the all clear. "Then they gave him some chamomile tea, but he already spit blood into the bag that her wife handed him," says her husband Martin Missfelder.

The plane takes off and

the man worsens dramatically.

But the plane takes off. And the man's condition worsens dramatically. He continues spitting into the bag and finally a stream of blood comes out of his mouth and nose.

"It was absolute horror, everyone was screaming

," says Missfelder. The man lost liters of blood. The walls were also all splattered.

Resuscitation maneuvers were unsuccessful while they were applied for half an hour. "The man was no longer alive. There was absolute silence on board," adds Karin.

The lifeless body was taken to the kitchen and the plane returned to Bangkok airport, after the captain announced the death of the passenger.

When asked about the events of flight LH773, the airline confirmed the death of the passenger but for reasons of respect for privacy, it did not provide further details, according to the aforementioned news agency.