{"id":429490,"date":"2026-08-11T05:22:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T05:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/429490\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T05:22:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T05:22:31","slug":"man-22-dies-mid-flight-on-plane-bound-for-lax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/429490\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 22, Dies Mid-Flight On Plane Bound For LAX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles County medical examiner\u2019s office identified the man as Rain McMillan Walmsey. His cause of death was deferred, and the case remained open Monday, according to the medical examiner.<\/p>\n<p>Walmsey was aboard Southwest Airlines Flight 958 on Friday when he went into medical distress and became unresponsive while the plane was headed to Los Angeles International Airport, NBC Los Angeles reported, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/southwest-passenger-dies-lax-bound-plane\/3927455\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">citing a law enforcement source.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles County medical examiner\u2019s office identified the man as Rain McMillan Walmsey. His cause of death&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-429490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}