Woman dies of 'heart attack' on Korean Airlines flight into New York

Departure: A passenger aboard a Korean Airlines flight into New York died before landing on Sunday morning (file photo)

A 64-year-old woman died while aboard a Korean Airlines flight into New York on Sunday, according a spokesman for the Port Authority.
Emergency officials were on hand when the plane arrived at JFK Airport around 11.20am from Seoul.
Port Authority spokesman Steve Coleman told News Day the woman appeared to have died from natural causes - most likely a heart attack.

While undoubtedly traumatising for many passengers involved, deaths of passengers by natural causes are nothing new for commercial airliners.
In July a Delta flight from Atlanta to Brussels made an emergency stop in Newfoundland after a woman in her late 60s died on board.

 

In June a Delta flight from Detroit to Phoenix landed in Colorado Springs to remove a woman who was found unresponsive and later pronounced dead.
In that same month, a Swedish woman was partially reimbursed her airfare after sitting through a 10-hour flight next to a a man who had died between Amsterdam and Tanzania.
According to witnesses flight attendants wrapped that passenger's corpse in a blanket and laid him out across three seats for the remainder of the flight.

After a couple of months of back-and-forth emails with Kenya Airways, she received $713, roughly half her ticket price, along with an apology