Swiss International Air Lines LHAG.DE announced on Monday the death in hospital of a crew member of a Bucharest-Zurich flight who made an emergency landing last week due to an engine problem and of smoke emission on board the cockpit.
Twelve of the 74 passengers on the Airbus AIR.PA 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,” Swiss CEO Jens Fehlinger said 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.
(Written by Dave Graham, French version Tangi Salaün)
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