This flight, which connected Bucharest to Zurich on December 23, had to make an emergency landing in Graz due to the presence of smoke in the cockpit and cabin.
The airline Swiss International Air Lines announced on Monday the death in hospital of a crew member of a Bucharest-Zurich flight who had made a emergency landing last week due to an engine problem and the emission of smoke from the cockpit. On the ground, passengers were evacuated via emergency slides.
Twelve of the 74 passengers l’Airbus A220-300 received medical treatment after the plane landed in Graz, Austria. The cabin crew member whose death the Swiss company announced on Monday had been in intensive care since that date. Swiss did not wish to communicate his identity or the exact causes of his death. “out of respect for his loved ones”. “This news leaves us deeply saddened and stunned. Our thoughts are with the young man’s loved ones, whose pain must be limitless”said Swiss CEO Jens Fehlinger in a statement.
Swiss said last week that according to the first elements of the investigation, a technical fault in one of the engines was probably at the origin of the incident.
A second crew member, injured and treated at Graz University Hospital, was able to leave the hospital in the meantime.
