An initial post-mortem examination held in Thailand found Kitchen had died from congestive heart failure.<\/p>\n
The inquest earlier was told he had undergone an operation to fit stents to his right coronary artery in April 2019.<\/p>\n
However, a review in October that year found he had returned to “normal exercise capacity”, a statement from his GP said.<\/p>\n
Dr Edward Sheffield, who performed an additional post-mortem examination on Kitchen’s body in Bristol, said his cause of death had been cardiac failure due to coronary artery atheroma and the physiological effects of turbulence.<\/p>\n
A report into the incident, which Harrowing partially read to the inquest, said 56 people had been seriously injured, 23 suffered minor injuries and one man – Kitchen – had died.<\/p>\n
“The aircraft was cruising at 37,000ft (11277.6m) when it was approaching the west coast of south-western Myanmar.<\/p>\n
“At 07:49 GMT, the aircraft flew past a waypoint when the aircraft experienced severe turbulence.<\/p>\n
“By 07:53, the aircraft had stabilised,” the report said.<\/p>\n
The crew reported the severe turbulence and made a Mayday call at 08:01 with a request to divert to Bangkok.<\/p>\n
The plane landed there at 08:45 and was met by medical personnel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An initial post-mortem examination held in Thailand found Kitchen had died from congestive heart failure. The inquest earlier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-780336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}