Woman Dies On New York-Bound Flight [View All]

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Source: KXAS | Dallas

NEW YORK -- Struggling to breathe, American Airlines passenger Carine Desir asked for oxygen, but a flight attendant twice refused her request, according to the woman's cousin.

"Don't let me die," the cousin, Antonio Oliver, recalled Desir saying after the attendant's refusal to administer the oxygen.

But Desir did die, Oliver said Sunday in a telephone interview, even after he said the flight attendant relented and various medical devices on the plane failed, including two oxygen tanks that were found to be empty and what may have been a defibrillator seemed to malfunction.

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