A 63-year-old un-named U.S citizen, traveling from Nigeria to the U.S, died today aboard an Arik Air flight from Nigeria to New York after vomiting in his seat and complaining of chest pains even as officials said that he did not have Ebola.
Health officials wearing hazmat suits boarded the Arik Air flight from Lagos when it landed at JFK’s Terminal 4 at 5:45 p.m.
The victim, was said to have died an hour before landing. He was traveling alone, vomiting and complaining of chest pains before he died.
According to a Port Authority source, passengers were held on the plane while Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workers examined the man and determined he had died of a heart attack, not the virulent disease that has killed nearly 4,000 people, nearly all of them in West Africa. [myad]
