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Violent passenger collapses and dies after attempting to strangle woman on plane

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A 32-year-old passenger collapsed and died of a heart attack after reportedly attempting to strangle a female passenger just 38 minutes after their flight took off.

The Russsian passenger aboard Red Wings airline had also used a mobile phone to repeatedly strike anoher male passenger on the head, in his violent rage.

He was said to have threatened other passengers on the flight who tried to stop him from attacking the woman by saying “If you want to live, put up your hands. We are going to die, the pilots are asleep!”

The Airbus A320 plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Moscow, Russia, after the distressing mid-air drama.

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Passengers rushed to the woman’s aid after the unnamed 32-year-old Russian man grabbed her by the neck and attempted to strangle her, Mirror reports.

During the violent struggle, the aggressive passenger released the woman. He was then strapped by the crew to a seat, said one witness.

But the man then collapsed with a “cardiac arrest”.

Due to the disturbing incidence, the captain requested an emergency landing at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport from where it had departed.

Police and ambulance were waiting at the runway but he was pronounced dead by paramedics minutes later.

“Paramedics who arrived at the aircraft started to provide medical assistance, but the man died from acute heart failure,” said Svetlana Petrenko in a statement issued by the Russian Investigative Committee.

“There were no external signs of a violent death.”

A passenger named Daria Belikova, in her 20s, said on a video showing the inside of the plane in the immediate aftermath of the brawl: “A man just started going mad here.

Soon after being disembarked, she said: “I’ve got to say that this weird man has died. What a flight this was.”

A formal investigation is underway into the incident.

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