Man dies on CAL trip from New York

(Jamaica Gleaner) A Caribbean Airlines (CAL) flight had to be diverted to Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands last Sunday, owing to a medical emergency which resulted in the death of an elderly passenger.

The man, who held dual citizenship, Jamaican and US, boarded the aircraft at the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. He was a wheelchair passenger travelling with his personalised oxygen concentrator.