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A 64-year-old woman on a Korean Air flight died while on the plane. Passengers had to sit near the dead woman for the duration of the flight until it landed in New York's John F. Kennedy Airport.
The woman boarded the Flight 81 in Seoul, South Korea on Sunday, but she never made it. Emergency responders met the flight when it landed at around 11:20 a.m. It was too late to save the woman.
The woman appeared to have died from natural causes. It seems like she died from a heart attack.
It is not clear when the woman died on the flight.
This isn't the first time that someone died mid-flight.
In July, a Delta flight that was heading to Brussels had to make an emergency stop in Newfoundland when a woman in her late 60's also died on the plane.
In June another Delta flight that was heading from Detroit to Phoenix had to make a stop in Colorado Springs when a woman on board was unresponsive. She was later pronounced dead.
Also in June, a Swedish woman was forced to sit next to a man who died on a 10-hour Kenya Airways flight from Amsterdam to Tanzania. The man had seizures and was sweating, but the flight took off anyway.
When he died, the cabin crew laid his body across three seats and covered him, but his feet were still out.
As there was nowhere else to sit, passenger Lena Pettersson had to sit across the aisle from the dead man for the remaining three hours of the flight.
Pettersson received an apology from Kenya Airways and a $713 refund, which only covered half of her ticket price.
"Of course, it was unpleasant, but I am not a person who makes a fuss," Pettersson said.
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