Within minutes, an emergency protocol was activated, and a large number of security personnel, Civil Guard officers, and forensic experts arrived at the scene. The woman's unidentified husband told police that his wife had died a few hours earlier and attempted to blame the airport staff for her death. The newspaper reported that the investigation is ongoing, as investigators determine if there is any criminal liability for her death, as well as the method of transporting her body to her home country as cargo rather than a passenger, which her husband seemed to be trying to avoid. This incident came after another case where an elderly British woman died on an easyJet flight. Spanish police arrested an octogenarian man as he attempted to board a commercial airplane at Tenerife South Airport with his deceased wife's body in a wheelchair. The man tried to disguise his deceased wife as an unconscious woman 'like any other passenger,' but after passing the initial security checkpoints, he was stopped as soon as he reached the metal detector, where staff noticed something unusual about the woman. One of the airport staff told the Spanish newspaper 'Diario de Avisos': 'A security guard approached the woman, and the man handed him her wheelchair. The employee immediately informed her supervisor.' One of the passengers stated that the 89-year-old woman was already dead before they boarded the plane heading to Gatwick Airport in London, which forced the plane to return.
