Baby dead after N.Z.bound flight
PA Auckland A baby who became ill on an Auckland-bound airliner early was found to be dead on arrival at Middlemore Hospital soon after the aircraft landed at Auckland. The parents, a SpanishAmerican couple emigrating; from New York to Australia, noticed that the baby, aged 31 months, looked ill when they went to feed him. Officials at Auckland Airport arranged to have the child sent to Middlemore Hospital by ambulance, but he was found to be dead on arrival.
The parents were travelling with their three other children, aged between three and six.
An Otahuhu police spokesman said that the baby apparently died from natural causes. i
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Press, 23 August 1977, Page 15
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