Posted on 07/24/2025 7:47:25 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The body of a passenger who died during an international flight to San Francisco, prompting the aircraft to divert to Chicago, is reportedly unaccounted for, according to reporting by SFGATE.
Neither airport officials nor a representative for the airline would comment on the circumstances surrounding the death and declined to confirm the passenger’s identity, nationality and gender, the outlet reported.
The passenger’s body would presumably then be under the jurisdiction of the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office, though Natalia Derevyanny, a spokesperson for the department, told SFGATE that there was no record of the deceased passenger or of any case matching that description.
According to flight tracking website FlightAware, TK Flight 79 left Istanbul on July 13 and while the Airbus A350-941 was over Greenland when the passenger “suffered a severe medical emergency,” according to the aviation blog Aviation A2Z.
Initially, the crew prepared to divert to Keflavik Airport in Iceland, though the passenger’s condition reportedly worsened, resulting in their death.
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If the dead passenger was part of a drug smuggling operation gone wrong, that advice might be applicable in more ways than one.
Could be that the body bag is with the unclaimed carrion luggage.
The story was about the son of missionaries in Africa
I think his name was Marmaduke
He wore mask and was Superman type without the powers The natives called him O Ghost Who Walks
No it’s probably with Obama BC
What about his luggage?
I didn’t know that. The art was great.
Mule. Baggie dissolved, dead.
Hide body quick.
They're instead declared dead somewhere else - ambulance, hospital, morgue, etc.
Anyone checked the baggage carousel?
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