Community News Desk: A 47-year-old Bangladeshi passenger died after fainting on a Cathay Pacific Airways flight from Dhaka to Hong Kong.
Hong Kong police said they received a report shortly after 8am on Wednesday (September 18) that the man collapsed on flight CX662 arriving from Dhaka, reports myNEWS.
Officers declared the man dead at the scene, the force said, adding that an autopsy would be carried out to ascertain the cause of death.
According to the Airport Authority, the flight departed from Dhaka at 2am local time and arrived in Hong Kong at 7:49am on Wednesday.
Cathay Pacific later confirmed that the passenger was found unconscious during a pre-landing check on the Dhaka-Hong Kong flight.
