Man dies on Thailand-Germany flight after ‘cold sweats’ and losing ‘litres of blood’
- The 63-year-old man was with his wife on a Lufthansa flight from Bangkok to Munich, with crew and fellow passengers concerned about his health when he boarded
- He had ‘cold sweats’ and ‘was breathing too quickly’, then blood began gushing from his nose and mouth after take off, some of it splattering onto the aircraft’s walls
A 63-year-old man has died during a Lufthansa flight after losing “litres of blood’ in a scene that terrified passengers.
The unidentified man boarded the flight from Bangkok to Munich with his wife on Thursday, according to Swiss-German outlet Blick.
Witnesses Martin and Karin Missfelder – a nursing specialist at the University Hospital in Switzerland – said that they sat in the row diagonally behind the couple.
Karin Missfelder said the man looked unwell when he boarded the plane. “He had cold sweats” and “was breathing much too quickly”, she said.
The man’s wife said his breathing and appearance looked off because they had rushed to catch the flight, but the symptoms worried the crew.
Despite their initial hesitations, though, they allowed the man to remain on the flight.