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Oct 21, 2010 News
Arrangements were being made yesterday morning for relatives to claim the body of the Guyanese national who took ill aboard a Delta Airline Flight and subsequently died on Tuesday in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
This newspaper had reported in its Wednesday’s Edition (October 20, 2010) that an elderly passenger had died on board the flight.
However, Delta Airlines Spokesperson, Carlos Santos, ascertained yesterday that the passenger did not die on the aircraft.
Although unable to divulge certain information which was deemed confidential, Santos told this newspaper during a telephone conversation yesterday that the passenger, an elderly man, had become ill aboard the flight DAL 384 which was destined for the John F. Kennedy International Airport, United States.
Due to the passenger’s illness, Santos said that the flight was re-directed to San Juan, Puerto Rico, where paramedics attended to him. He nonetheless succumbed to his ailment, a condition which Santos could not have pronounced on yesterday.
Santos said, “We are making arrangements for family members to go to Puerto Rico and claim the body…At the moment there isn’t much information that I can disclose because this is confidential information about our passenger.”
He revealed, though, that although the flight was forced to divert to Puerto Rico, some of the passengers were able to board other flights Tuesday that were en-route to the United States.
However, a remaining 50 passengers were accommodated overnight in Puerto Rico at the Best Western Hotel.
They were able to travel to the United States yesterday morning.
A total of 184 passengers had left Guyana aboard the Delta aircraft which would normally fly directly to the United States mainland. However due to the ailing passenger, the aircraft which left the Cheddi Jagan International Airport some time after 08:00 hours Tuesday, landed in Puerto Rico around noon.
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