Ventura woman dies on flight from LAX
By Larry Altman | laltman32@gmail.com | Contributing writer
PUBLISHED: July 31, 2008 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: September 1, 2017 at 8:33 a.m.
A woman who died aboard a flight from Los Angeles International Airport to Atlanta early Wednesday was from Ventura.
Michaele O'Neil Carnahan, 61, was discovered in the restroom aboard Delta Flight 950, authorities said.
Carnahan was on her way to a wedding in Florida, said John Bankhead, a spokesman for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
Flight attendants found her shortly before the plane landed at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport at 5:50 a.m., Delta spokeswoman Keyra Johnson said. Atlanta police met the jet at the gate.
"She was found deceased inside the restroom, and there was a physician on the plane who pronounced her dead when they got to her," Bankhead said.
An autopsy is scheduled for today.
Bankhead said there was nothing to indicate foul play.
"Everything points to natural," he said.
A Delta spokeswoman offered the airline's sympathies to the family.
"Delta extends its condolences to the family and commends our flight crew and medical professionals on board who handled this incident with the utmost professionalism and respect for which they are known," spokeswoman Betsy Talton wrote in an e-mail.
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Larry Altman | Contributing writer
Larry Altman has covered crime and court proceedings in Southern California since 1987. A graduate of Cal State Northridge, where he served as editor of the college newspaper, Altman has worked for the Daily Breeze since 1990. The Society of Professional Journalists named him a "Distinguished Journalist" in Los Angeles in 2006. Altman's work was featured twice on CBS' "48 Hours" and he appeared eight times with "Nancy Grace," who called him "dear." He has covered hundreds of homicides and many trials. Altman has crawled through a mausoleum to open a coffin, confronted husbands who killed their wives, wives who killed their husbands, and his coverage helped put a child molester and a murderer in prison. In his spare time, Altman is an avid Los Angeles Lakers and Dodgers fan, is the commissioner of a Fantasy Baseball league with several other current and former newspapermen, runs a real estate empire and likes to watch old movies on TCM.
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