A German plane from Gran Canaria bound for Hamburg with nearly 200 passengers on board was forced to make an emergency landing at Bilbao Airport. Due to the sudden death of a traveler. man of … At a relatively advanced age, he suffered a heart attack mid-flight, prompting the pilot to land as quickly as possible to try to provide medical assistance to the patient.
The pilot headed to Loyo, in Bilbao, after the man went into heart failure on Sunday afternoon, but the effort was in vain: The passenger was already dead When emergency service personnel arrived at the plane. Airport and health sources told El Diario Vasco newspaper that the resuscitation maneuvers performed by doctors were useless.
The events took place a few minutes before 8 p.m. on board an Airbus 320 – the model for which the company must be grounded – belonging to Eurowings that departed at around 4:20 p.m. From Gran Canaria. Some passengers tried to help the man. A retiree travels with his daughterBut the situation became complicated and the pilot agreed to land according to protocol.
The body was transported when the duty judge arrived after the plane disembarked. Company I decided to spend the night in Bilbao Due to the time limit to leave the capital, Biscay, and land in Hamburg. Expectations were that travelers would arrive in the German city on Monday.
This is not the first time in 2025 that an accident has occurred Of this type at Bilbao Airport, since another plane was forced to make an emergency landing in March with 150 tourists on board who were traveling between London and Gibraltar due to the death of a passenger while flying over the Cantabrian Sea.