A four-month-old girl died while travelling on a
Cathay Pacific Airways flight from London to
Hong Kong on Sunday.The infant is believed to
have been suffering from a gastrointestinal
disease when the family boarded the plane at
Heathrow that day.
The four month old baby girl fell unconscious
during the flight and her parents - who were
planning on visiting relatives in China, alerted
cabin crew immediately. Another
passenger who was a nurse and saw what was
going on started giving first aid to the baby.
The pilot made an emergency landing at Almaty
Airport in Kazakhstan and paramedics rushed to
the scene.
But the baby could not be saved and she was
pronounced dead soon after the emergency
landing.
The baby's mother who is believed to be a 36-
year-old Chinese-French national and her father
continued their journey to Hong Kong with their
dead child.
Fellow passengers said they
were distraught during the rest of the flight.
The baby's death was confirmed by officials but
is not being treated as suspicious. A post-
mortem examination hasn't been conducted yet.
A doctor told Apple Daily that parents should
avoid taking sick babies onto planes because of
a lack of medical support that could lead to
very dangerous situations on board.
Source: The Sun
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