By Clinton McGregor
The East Kingston Police and Jamaica's aviation authority are probing the circumstances which lead to the death of a passenger on a flight which landed at Norman Manley International Airport on Sunday.
The deceased passenger has been identified as 51 year-old Luis Ivan Mendez Fajardo, an resident of Ecuador.
It's reported that the Ecuatorian national was a passenger on a flight which departed JFK airport in New York, destined for Bogota, Colombia.
About 9:50 a.m., while on the flight, Mr Fajardo became ill and collapsed. Efforts by a medical doctor and a nurse on the flight to revive him proved futile and he was declared dead by the doctor.
The flight was then diverted to Jamaica.
Mr Fajardo' body was transported to Kingston Public Hospital where it was officially pronounced dead by doctors at the hospital.
Radio Jamaica News was informed that Mr Fajardo was a cancer patient.
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