Woman Dies on Alaska Airlines Flight. Here’s How It Happened

A woman has died on an Alaska Airlines flight from Seattle to Kansas City, according to reports.

A spokesperson for the Kansas City International Airport said that a woman on Flight 478 couldn’t be resuscitated, Fox 4 Kansas City reported.

The woman was already dead when emergency workers reached her, the Fox report stated. The woman apparently suffered cardiac arrest during the flight.

The passenger has not yet been identified.

“I’m just really sorry for the family of this lady,” passenger Jan Andrews was quoted by the Fox affiliate as saying.

Police added that there was no foul play involved in the death.

The Kansas City Police Department is investigating the matter. It’s standard procedure, KMBC reported.

The flight landed at the airport at around 3:50 p.m. local time.

An autopsy was ordered for the woman, KCTV5 reported.

Earlier this month, a Southwest Airlines plane engine exploded mid-air, sending shrapnel into the plane, breaking a window. A passenger, Jennifer Riordan, died in the incident, according to reports at the time.

The plane made an emergency landing in Philadelphia.

Southwest announced that it would cancel some U.S. flights to inspect plane engines, Reuters reported.

Emergency personnel monitor the damaged engine of Southwest Airlines Flight 1380, which diverted to the Philadelphia International Airport this morning after the airline crew reported damage to one of the aircraft's engines, on a runway in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 17, 2018. Reuters/Mark Makela

The firm stated on Monday, April 23, that it anticipated “minimal delays or cancellations each day due to the inspections.”

The Federal Aviation Administration said that the engine failure was triggered by a fan blade that broke away.

A U.S. NTSB investigator is on scene examining damage to the engine of the Southwest Airlines plane in this image released from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 17, 2018. NTSB/Handout via Reuters

In 2016, a Southwest flight made an emergency landing in Florida without incident after a fan blade separated from the same type of engine, Reuters noted.

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