Tragedy on Lufthansa Flight from Bangkok to Germany

[NextG]

Air passengers screamed and were left 'traumatised' yesterday when a German husband started coughing up blood in front of his wife before collapsing and dying.

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13065869/man-dies-lufthansa-flight-a380-bangkok-munich.html
 

 

[KannikaP]

I am surprised that they allowed him to Check in or board considering his apparent condition.

[lopburi3]

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Flight data shows the plane left Bangkok at 23:50 and landed back in Thailand at 08:28 on Friday morning.

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'After 1.5 hours of flight time, the crew decided to return to Bangkok, where the aircraft landed normally and safely. 

Math seems a bit strange - even if the 1.5 hours was just outbound flight time.  That he was allowed to fly also seems at odds with normal practice these days.  So wife got back on a replacement flight leaving body where?  UK news reporting seems almost as bad a local stuff.

[NextG]

5 minutes ago, lopburi3 said:

Math seems a bit strange - even if the 1.5 hours was just outbound flight time.  That he was allowed to fly also seems at odds with normal practice these days.  So wife got back on a replacement flight leaving body where?  UK news reporting seems almost as bad a local stuff.

A bit of a silly comment with regard to U.K. news reporting. It’s obviously just put together from other news reports. 

[lopburi3]

2 minutes ago, NextG said:

A bit of a silly comment with regard to U.K. news reporting. It’s obviously just put together from other news reports. 

The OP source is a UK report.  I am not saying all UK (or Thai) reporting is bad.  But we seem to get a bunch of it here on the internet.  

[impulse]

8 minutes ago, lopburi3 said:

The OP source is a UK report.  I am not saying all UK (or Thai) reporting is bad.  But we seem to get a bunch of it here on the internet.  

 

Like most news, I find it best to copy a few key words and do a Google (Or Bing) search to get the story from several sources.

 

[webfact]

Flight from hell: Husband, 63, dies beside his wife when 'litres of blood' shoot out of his nose and mouth all over the interior of the plane in front of screaming passengers flying from Bangkok to Germany

 

 

Passengers say they were offered 10 francs after returning to Bangkok airport

By JAMES REYNOLDS 

 

Horrified air passengers screamed and were left 'traumatised' yesterday when a German husband started coughing up 'litres of blood' in front of his wife before collapsing and dying mid-flight. Passengers took pictures onboard as the drama unfolded

Horrified air passengers screamed and were left 'traumatised' yesterday when a German husband started coughing up 'litres of blood' in front of his wife before collapsing and dying mid-flight. 

 

The 63-year-old traveller, who has not been named, was said to have boarded the Lufthansa flight from Bangkok to Munich visibly ill before his condition rapidly deteriorated.

 

'It was absolute horror, everyone was screaming,' fellow passenger Martin Missfelder, 53, from Zurich, Switzerland, told Swiss outlet Blick.

 

A medical vehicle is pictured at the airport after a man died on a flight from Bangkok yesterday

 

The man - who was travelling with his Filipina wife - had got on with 'cold sweats' and was 'breathing much too quickly' before passengers rushed to help him, offering chamomile tea and taking his pulse.

 

But as the plane took off, his health went quickly downhill. The man was said to have been spitting into a bag when a 'gush of blood' came out of his mouth and nose, splattering the walls of the Airbus A380 aircraft.

 

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[richard_smith237]

Urgh... thats rather horrific...  What a horrible way to go, not just for him but all those around him too. 

 

I'd have been sh!#ing it on that flight...  fear level 9 unlocked as I start to suspect something like hemorrhagic ebola...

 

 

One question though: If he was so visibly unwell, how come the boarding crew (gate staff) didn't raise concern ? 

 

 

[scubascuba3]

Flight from hell, probably have PTSD after going through that

[NextG]

34 minutes ago, lopburi3 said:

The OP source is a UK report.  I am not saying all UK (or Thai) reporting is bad.  But we seem to get a bunch of it here on the internet.  

I know what the source is, since I posted it 🤦🏻‍♂️
I could have used the Blick report from which it quotes. But then you could complain about the Swiss report…

[impulse]

6 minutes ago, NextG said:

I know what the source is, since I posted it 🤦🏻‍♂️
I could have used the Blick report from which it quotes. But then you could complain about the Swiss report…

 

Sometimes, you just can't win.

 

I appreciate the OP link, though it's blocked here in China.  Still had enough info to do a Bing search and get the story from several sources.

 

[Korat Kiwi]

It mentioned in the original report that his Filipina wife said that they had to hurry to the gate. 

 

Surely this wasn't the only cause for such a tragic end.  I'll admit I'm not as fit as I once was and could end up a bit breathless but to cough up blood is pretty full on. 

 

I suspect some other deep medical problem. 

 

Nasty way to go and not very nice if you witnessed it all. 

 

RIP to the deceased and commiserations to his wife. 

[EvetsKram]

Sounds to me like oesophageal varices which probably popped

[Cabradelmar]

Scary for everyone. Wondering if it was a virus/infection that killed him... and was he contagious or not. Maybe just lung cancer or simply heart failure. Cause of death, that's what everyone really wants to know. 

[brianthainess]

What a shame they left his wife to go through immigration alone, she should have been helped through with ground crew. Poor woman, my condolences to you. 

[Hanuman2547]

"Passengers took pictures onboard as the drama unfolded."  Why?  Were they going to update their status on Facebook, Instagram, or some other social media platform?  

[john donson]

viral ebola, here we come...

[renaissanc]

The pilots probably have rules to follow, but a more sensible approach would have been to ask the passengers if they wanted to return to BKK with all the delays that this would involve or fly on with the body on the flight. Also, the wife would probably have appreciated not having the huge expense of transporting the body back to Germany.

[Furioso]

This exact situation really happened in Africa and was expertly described in the 1995 NON FICTION book "The Hot Zone"

[Liverpool Lou]

16 minutes ago, Furioso said:

This exact situation really happened in Africa and was expertly described in the 1995 NON FICTION book "The Hot Zone"

So what?   It really happened in this NON-FICTION instance.

[wombat]

Patient Zero.

[zhounan]

I am not worried.

I am quite sure that Mr. Gates already has got the jab to save my life.

[impulse]

2 hours ago, Hanuman2547 said:

"Passengers took pictures onboard as the drama unfolded."  Why?  Were they going to update their status on Facebook, Instagram, or some other social media platform?  

 

I'd have had my camera out, if only for the lawsuit.  And I can think of a few dozen other ways that customer photos could help any investigation.

 

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[hellohello123]

Is it even possible to cough up litres of blood unless youve been stabbed ?

[ukrules]

15 minutes ago, hellohello123 said:

Is it even possible to cough up litres of blood unless youve been stabbed ?

Apparently so.

 

[Furioso]

15 minutes ago, hellohello123 said:

Is it even possible to cough up litres of blood unless youve been stabbed ?

Yep, when the plumbing breaks it all comes out. 

[Jonathan Swift]

5 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

Urgh... thats rather horrific...  What a horrible way to go, not just for him but all those around him too. 

 

I'd have been sh!#ing it on that flight...  fear level 9 unlocked as I start to suspect something like hemorrhagic ebola...

 

 

One question though: If he was so visibly unwell, how come the boarding crew (gate staff) didn't raise concern ? 

 

 

More likely a perforated stomach ulcer. No doubt 20 20 hindsight will reveal a number of errors

[Jonathan Swift]

23 minutes ago, hellohello123 said:

Is it even possible to cough up litres of blood unless youve been stabbed ?

Something like a perforated stomach ulcer might do it. Ruptured aorta or pulmonary artery? Although I suspect "liters" was an exaggeration. Were they measuring it with water bottles? 

[Tmoney]

So, the passengers were offered 10 francs on their return to Bangkok having been on a flight from Thailand to Germany

The Thai currency is the baht, the German currency used to be the Deutschmark (until 1999) but is now the Euro and the French currency used to be the franc (as mentioned in the report) until 1999 but is now also the Euro.

Why were the passengers offered francs FFS?

Typical Daily Mail drivel.