LONDON - A BRITISH airline said yesterday that one of its flights was forced to divert to Turkey after the co-pilot died in mid-flight.
GB Airways said the Airbus A-320 carrying 156 passengers from Manchester to Paphos in Cyprus landed in Istanbul on Sunday after what was termed a medical emergency on the flight deck. The co-pilot was pronounced dead once the plane had landed.
The airline named the dead man as Mr Michael Warren, 43, a former Royal Air Force pilot who was married and had two children. It did not give a specific cause of death, but said he had died of natural causes.
The airline said passengers were never in danger. They were due to be flown to Cyprus yesterday.
