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The 69-year-old was traveling from Orlando to Los Angeles when he fell ill. The plane was diverted to New Orleans, where he died. (File photo)
A United Airlines passenger in the United States who fell ill on a flight from Orlando to Los Angeles a week ago died of acute respiratory failure and Covid-19, according to a forensic report.
The report was released Monday by Dr. Gerry Cvitanovich of the Jefferson Parish Coroner’s Office in Louisiana.
United Flight 591 from Orlando to Los Angeles was diverted to New Orleans for the medical emergency.
The coroner’s report says the passenger was a 69-year-old man from Los Angeles. He says he died at 9:09 p.m. on December 14 at the Ochsner Medical Center-Kenner in Kenner, where the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport is located.
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The United flight, which had 154 passengers, departed Orlando at 7:30 p.m. and landed in New Orleans at 8:10 p.m. local time.
The plane continued to Los Angeles despite the medical emergency and comments from other passengers on social media that the sick passenger had symptoms of Covid-19.
“At the time of the diversion, we were informed that he had suffered cardiac arrest, so passengers had the option of taking a later flight or continuing with their travel plans,” United said in a statement Friday.
The airline didn’t mention Covid-19 until it issued the statement, saying the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had contacted it to obtain a passenger list so the CDC could work with local health officials. in contact tracing. United officials confirmed that the passenger had symptoms of Covid-19, but did not reveal the cause of death. The airline said it had recognized United’s “ready to fly” pandemic health checklist, which asks passengers to certify that they are not positive for Covid and have no symptoms.
As of Monday, a passenger on the flight told USA TODAY that he had not been contacted by the CDC.
-USA. Nowadays
