Passenger Dies After Suffering Mid-Flight Emergency

Other passengers alerted the crew and the pilot to the 79-year-old woman’s condition, prompting the unscheduled stop soon after the plane had entered Mexican airspace. Medical personnel pronounced the passenger dead shortly after the plane landed in Monterrey. The woman, identified as María Yolando Guerrero Medina, was traveling with her husband at the time. She had been living with kidney failure and diabetes for about 12 years, reported People. The plane was then replaced with another aircraft so they could complete their journey. Another flight also had to make an emergency landing at Monterrey on Sunday. The United Airlines plane heading to Houston from Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, was forced to land at a Mexican airport after a mechanical issue soon after takeoff. Read more at The Daily Beast.