Passenger declared dead after return from the flight to Detroit

A passenger on a Delta Air Lines flight was declared dead Monday night after returning from the flight to Detroit for a medical emergency.

Delta flight 583 took off from the Detroit Metropolitan Airport for Shanghai at 4:35 pm. Around 7:15 pm, a "medical emergency was declared," according to a spokesman for Delta. The crew made the decision to return to Detroit and landed at 22:35.

"The plane landed without incident and the passenger in question was removed," said the spokesman. The passenger was later declared dead by the airport medical staff.

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The Associated Press reported that the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office had identified the passenger on Tuesday as Yury Rubel and that he had died as a result of a hypertensive cardiovascular disease. Death has been judged a natural death. The age and the hometown of the passenger were not immediately available.

A spokeswoman for the Wayne County Airport Authority said the agency's public safety team had responded to a medical emergency on a Delta aircraft. When they arrived, they discovered that the passenger had died.

Flight 583 was reprogrammed and took off Tuesday at 8:20.