A 40-year-old Chicago woman reportedly fainted twice and suddenly died just minutes after she got off a plane from New York City to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
“My sister called me at approximately 1:30 this morning,” Gloria Ray-Banks, the cousin, told the news outlet.
Ray-Banks recalled that Hodges had complained of not feeling well as she and her sister departed the plane.
“So they sat down, and Brandi fainted,” Banks told the ABC affiliate station. “So then, my sister went and got one of the flight attendants.”
After she woke, Hodges was given ice and oxygen, but she again fainted. Paramedics then took her into an ambulance, but her sister apparently never saw it leave the airport, Ray-Banks said.
“After so many minutes and they didn’t pull off, my sister looked back to see why they had not left. Brandi wasn’t back there,” she said.
Hodges was taken into the airport’s medical room, and there, they tried to resuscitate her, but they were not successful.
Her cousin said it will cost some $6,000 to get Hodges’ body back to the United States. She said that due to holidays in Dubai, many businesses aren’t open, meaning that her body won’t be returned to the country until later in the week, it was reported.
Plane Crashes in New York
Over the weekend, a pilot and passenger were killed in a small plane crash along Long Island’s North Fork, but the dog onboard survived, according to news reports.A farmer in the area found the dog, the report said.
“Firefighters, police officers and rescue personnel arrived at the scene within minutes and put out the ensuing fire,” Harbes Farm said in a statement, reported Newsday.
“This is a sad tragedy, and our thoughts and prayers go out to the family of the passengers of the aircraft,” the statement said.
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