SWISS crew member 'died as a result of oxygen deprivation'

A Swiss International Airlines (SWISS) crew member died of brain damage resulting from lack of oxygen, following an emergency landing last month, Swiss media have reported. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox At the request of the Keystone-SDA news agency, the public prosecutor's office in Graz confirmed corresponding media reports on Sunday. The preliminary cause of death is hypoxic brain damage and cerebral edema, said Hansjörg Bacher, spokesman for the public prosecutor, on the telephone. The 23-year-old flight attendant's brain had been severely damaged due to a severe lack of oxygen and he had died as a result. Chemical and histological examinations would now have to be carried out to find out exactly how this massive brain damage had occurred. It will take several weeks before the definitive cause of death is known, said Bacher. SWISS flight LX1885, which was en route from Bucharest to Zurich, was forced to make an emergency landing in Graz due to ...