Man who died on flight after biting passenger had cocaine in his stomach

The man who died after biting a passenger on a flight from Portugal to Ireland is found to have had cocaine in his system.

Investigators have revealed that the Brazilian passenger who died on an Aer Lingus flight after suffering a violent seizure and collapsing was found to have £41,000 (13 million Naira) nearly 2lbs worth of suspected cocaine in his stomach.

The Irish Times reported that the man, named as 25-year-old John Kennedy Santos Gurjao, is understood to have ingested 0.8kg of the drug in a total of 80 pellets, one of which burst in his stomach during the flight from Lisbon to Dublin on Sunday.

Passengers described how he was being restrained by crew and passengers after becoming erratic when he bit one of them.

He then passed out and never regained consciousness.

Passenger John Leonard, from Midleton, County Cork, told 96FM: ‘There was a lot of commotion and cabin crew rushed to the back of the plane.

‘The guy had to be restrained [and] after that, it got worse. He was on the ground shaking violently. The noise he was making was something I’ve never heard before. It was like a deep anguish… very, very troubled, very guttural, from deep within him.’

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The post-mortem examination is to be carried out in an attempt to establish if the man suffered a seizure or had an underlying medical condition or if there was another reason for his condition.

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