A 46-year-old woman died on Friday on board a plane after suffering a decompensation in the aircraft that was traveling from Barcelona to Buenos Aires, according to airport sources reported to the TN channel.
The victim, of Argentine nationality and who was flying with her daughter, boarded Level airline flight IB2601 that departed from the Barcelona-El Prat airport. But with barely two hours to land, she suffered a decompensation whereby nitrogen, dissolved in the blood and tissues due to high pressure, forms bubbles when the pressure drops.
In view of the first symptoms, it was thought that the passenger could be suffering from acute panic and, when she showed sweating and obvious breathing problems, both the cabin staff and two doctors who were traveling in the aircraft performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation. (CPR).
Airport sources point out that the commander of the aircraft notified the Ezeiza control tower 40 minutes before landing that they had died (deceased person), in order to anticipate the implementation of the protocols provided for these cases.
The first report indicates that it could be a pulmonary thromboembolism, a blood clot in the lungs, but local authorities have claimed to wait for details of the tests performed to confirm the causes of death.
The death of this passenger adds to another similar case that occurred this month on an Aerolíneas Argentinas flight bound for Resistencia, Chaco, where a two-year-old boy suffering from leukemia decompensated mid-flight and died upon arrival of the plane. to the metropolitan airport.
