Man chokes to death while eating in-flight meal
A woman had to sit with the body of her dead boyfriend during a nine-hour flight after he started choking during the in-flight meal.
The man, aged 31, starting to choke while eating his beef dish just 90 minutes into the 11-hour Jetstar flight from Singapore to Auckland.
The coroner is yet to confirm whether he died from choking and his family in New Zealand have told local newspapers he had a pre-existing heart condition.
According to reports, his girlfriend screamed after she noticed his lips turning purple and his eyes rolling.
A doctor and two nurses on board rushed to help and tried to perform CPR, but failed to save him.
The body was removed by crew to a rest area behind a curtain and his girlfriend sat with him for the rest of the flight.
The airline has come under fire for offering just NZ$100 (£52) travel vouchers to passengers seated nearby.
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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