Flight attendant dies per week after emergency touchdown

ZURICH, Switzerland (AP) — A flight attendant aboard a Swiss aircraft that made an emergency touchdown in Austria because of smoke within the cabin has died, the airline stated Tuesday.

The flight from Bucharest to Zurich on December 23 was once diverted to Graz after struggling engine issues and reporting smoke within the cockpit and cockpit, Swiss World Air Traces stated in a observation.

The airline stated the attendant died on Monday within the extensive care unit of the clinic in Graz. The attendant was once one in all two workforce participants who have been hospitalized. All 74 passengers on board the Airbus A220-300 have been evacuated after flight LX1885 landed safely, Swiss World Air Traces stated.

“We’re devastated by means of the loss of life of our cherished colleague,” Swiss CEO Jens Fehlinger stated within the observation. “His loss has left us all within the inner most surprise and ache. Our ideas are along with his circle of relatives, whose ache we can’t believe. I be offering my honest condolences on behalf of all folks at Swiss.”

Swiss World Air Traces is a subsidiary of the German airline Lufthansa.

The Graz prosecutor’s administrative center has ordered a forensic exam of the flight attendant’s frame, Austria’s APA information company reported. It has additionally appointed an aviation professional and introduced an investigation into the reason for the incident.

After the incident, Swiss indicated that it was once additionally wearing out an interior evaluation.

“We need to totally explain the reasons of the smoke and the results on passengers and workforce,” the airline wrote on Thursday. “The point of interest is at the mechanical portions of the plane, such because the engine, but additionally on the usage of protecting apparatus for the cabin workforce, referred to as Breathing Protecting Apparatus.”

The airline famous that preliminary findings “level to a technical drawback in one of the crucial engines,” including that “we aren’t ruling the rest out and are operating intently with the related government, engine producer Pratt & Whitney and plane producer Airbus.”