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A United Airlines passenger 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 coroner s 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 diverted to New Orleans for the medical emergency.
The coroner s report says the passenger was a 69-year-old man from Los Angeles. It says he died at 9:09 p.m. Dec. 14 at Ochsner Medical Center-Kenner in Kenner, where Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport is located.
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.
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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