United passenger on flight to LAX died of COVID-19, respiratory failure, coroner says KABC
A United Airlines passenger who collapsed on a packed flight from Orlando to Los Angeles International Airport died of acute respiratory failure and COVID-19, a coroner s report confirms.
The report was released Monday by the Jefferson Parish Coroner s Office in Louisiana, and says the 69-year-old L.A. resident died at Ochsner Medical Center-Kenner at 9:09 p.m. Dec. 14.
United Flight 591 from Orlando to LAX was diverted during a medical emergency after a man suffered what was initially deemed a heart attack. The plane had to make an emergency landing in New Orleans.
The United flight, which had 154 passengers, departed Orlando at 7:30 pm and landed in New Orleans at 8:10 pm, local time. The plane continued on to Los Angeles despite the medical emergency and comments from fellow passengers on social media that the ill passenger had Covid-19 symptoms. At the time of the diversion, we were informed he had suffered a cardiac arrest, so passengers were given the option to take a later flight or continue on with their travel plans, United said in a statement on Friday. The airline did not mention Covid-19 until it released the statement, saying it had been contacted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for a list of passengers so the CDC could work with local health officials on contact tracing. United officials confirmed the passenger had Covid-19 symptoms but did not reveal a cause of death. The airline said he had acknowledged United s ready to fly pandemic health checklist, which asks passengers to certify they aren t Covid
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The Jefferson Parish Coroner s Office in Louisiana released the passenger s cause of death he died from acute respiratory failure and COVID-19. The passenger a 69-year-old Los Angeleno died at a New Orleans hospital following an emergency landing.