A young Nigerian lady identified as Remilekun Toyosi Meshioye has died aboard an Egypt Air flight en route to London, United Kingdom, News About Nigeria gathered.
The lady left Nigeria for London on board Egypt Air MS 876 flight to Cairo on Monday through the Murtala Muhammad International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, but died in-flight.
According to a statement by the elder sister of the deceased, Olufunmilola Olaniyi-Alabi, on behalf of the family, she said her late sister left Lagos for the UK on Monday at 14:00 via Egypt Airline and eventually died during her transit from Lagos to Cairo according to the little information they got.
The family of the deceased therefore alleged that the corpse was “dumped” in Cairo without the Airline properly informing them of the incident. The sister alleged that they called Egypt Air customer care and all other contact phone details on their website but no response throughout Wednesday and when the phone was picked, they quickly ended the call.
Responding, Egypt Air stated that the deceased reported being sick when she arrived at the transit area while the airport quarantine department was called to check on her.
After the check, she was recommended to be hospitalised before she later passed away.
The statement by the airline said, “The Airport authorities cleared and stamped her into the country and transferred to hospital.
“Nigerian embassy in Cairo was contacted (Mr Tarek from public relations department) and was informed about the case.”
The airline also noted that the procedure to evacuate the body back home would be provided by the Nigerian embassy in Cairo.
