AirAsia has vowed to provide all necessary support to the family of its employee who died Wednesday on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Bandung, Indonesia.
Flight AK416 had to be diverted and landed at the Senai International Airport in Johor due to what was then described as a medical emergency.
The 46-year-old Indonesian man was given immediate treatment upon landing but was later pronounced dead by a doctor on the ground, reported the New Straits Times (NST).
“The AirAsia family is saddened by the loss of an Allstar and extends our deepest sympathies to the family of the deceased,” the carrier said in a statement.
Kulai district police chief Superintendent Dzulkhairi Mukhtar told NST that AirAsia had lodged a police report on the incident, which had been classified as sudden death.
The flight later departed from Senai and arrived at the Husein Sastranegara International Airport, Indonesia.
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