by Donald Wood
Last updated: 1:14 PM ET, Thu October 12, 2017
An Emirates flight was forced to make an emergency landing Tuesday in Kuwait after a child died on board.
According to GulfNews.com, Emirates Flight EK049 was flying from Dubai International Airport in the United Arab Emirates to Munich Airport in Germany when a child onboard suffered a medical emergency.
Officials from Emirates announced Wednesday that the pilot of the flight called for an emergency landing at Kuwait International Airport. The plane landed safely a short time later, and emergency personnel quickly arrived to provide medical attention.
Unfortunately, the child was pronounced dead at the scene and the airline did not reveal the cause of death, the nationality or the gender of the deceased.
"Emirates would like to express its condolences to the family of the deceased," an airline spokesperson said in a statement to Gulf News.
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The flight eventually took off from the Kuwait airport and landed in Munich 2.5 hours after it was originally scheduled to arrive.
The death of a child on Tuesday's flight was just the latest in a series of similar incidents that occurred during 2017. In May, two passengers on flights landing at Ireland's Shannon Airport died over the span of just five days, and a woman was found dead on a flight that landed in Houston during August.
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