News | Iceland Monitor | Mon 16 Apr 2018 | 17.09 GMT

Death at Keflavik International Airport

A foreign national travelling from Amsterdam  to New York became ill and the plane had to land at Keflavik International Airport.  Paramedics attended to the passenger who was pronounced dead moments later. 

This incident occurred on Thursday.  The US embassy was notified. 

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