Today's news. Offered with no comment. Please spare a little thought for her and her family. She is the real tragedy here.
Germany's Monika Derstroff, 44, remains hospitalized in the ICU of Hospital Portuguese in Recife. She was brain dead after suffering a cardiac arrest during the flight of 247 British Airways in the early hours of Friday. The plane, which left Frankfurt to Sao Paulo, made an emergency landing in Recife and a mobile intensive care from the airport took the passenger to the hospital.
According to a spokesperson for the Hospital Portuguese, brain death was diagnosed, but the patient's heart continues to function. She was with her husband, Rainer Derstroff for a cruise leaving the state capital. The husband has come into contact with the insurer of the family in Germany and will probably have to wait for clinical death, in Recife, then arrange the transfer of the body for Europe.
A Lurker, would you please be so kind as to post this sad news on the forum from which you retrieved the initial report. It was quite hard to locate and they may not be aware. Thank you.