Terrified passenger bites neighbor and dies after a while

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 19, ARMENPRESS. The man was on an Aer Lingus flight from Lisbon to Dublin which was forced to divert to Cork Airport after he became agitated and violent and had to be restrained. “Armenpress” reports about this, citing Irish Independent website.

A woman who had been on the plane was arrested after it landed but it is not known if she was travelling with the dead man. She was detained on suspicion of drugs offences and was being questioned in Togher Garda station in Cork city following the discovery of amphetamines. The arrested woman is aged in her forties and is Portuguese.

There were 168 passengers and six crew members on board flight EI485, which landed safely at 5.40pm yesterday.

Aer Lingus described the incident as a "medical emergency".

The man is believed to have fallen unconscious while on the flight and he was pronounced dead at the airport.