A passenger died on board a flight which diverted to Shannon Airport in the early hours of this morning.
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight 714 was travelling from Paramaribo in Suriname on the north eastern coast of South America, to Amsterdam in The Netherlands at the time.
The Boeing 777-300(ER) aircraft was about a two hours southwest of Ireland when the flight contacted air traffic controllers here to advise them of their situation. The crew confirmed they had a male passenger on board who had fallen ill.
