{"id":378605,"date":"2026-04-14T07:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T07:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/378605\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T07:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T07:32:09","slug":"person-dies-on-qantas-flight-from-us-to-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/378605\/","title":{"rendered":"Person dies on Qantas flight from US to Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating the &#8220;sudden death&#8221; of a person on a flight from the US to Auckland overnight. <\/p>\n<p>The flight had arrived in Auckland from New York, a police media spokesperson told 1News.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police are making enquiries into the woman\u2019s death on behalf of the coroner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Qantas confirmed to Stuff a person had died during the nearly 18-hour flight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Urgent assistance was provided by crew and doctors onboard but sadly they passed away,&#8221; a Qantas spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In line with standard procedure, emergency services met the aircraft as part of the response.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Auckland Airport and St John have been contacted by 1News for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating the &#8220;sudden death&#8221; of a person on a flight from the US to Auckland overnight.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15656,51,111,43,139,64,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-378605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-air-travel","9":"tag-auckland","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-north-america","14":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}