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Tue, Jan 07, 2003

Passenger Hangs Self in Flight

Had Meal, Champagne, Entered Lavatory

No one knows just why the middle-aged passenger, said to be a Swiss national, did it.

On a Sunday flight from London't Heathrow to LAX, he ordered a meal, and champagne; then he went into the lavatory. When he didn't come out after half an hour, and calls from outside the lav went unanswered, flight crew went in.

The man had hanged himself with his belt, wrapping the other end around a handicapped-aid railing.

A doctor who happened to be a passenger on the flight was unable to revive him.

British Airways has not had official comment; additional details are not known.

FMI: www.britishairways.com/travel/home/public/en_us

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