A 24-year-old man has died on board an Aer Lingus flight bound for Dublin after reportedly biting another passenger.

According to Irish police, the plane was forced to divert to Cork Airport after the man became agitated around an hour into the two-hour journey from Lisbon, Portugal.

The man then became unwell and fell unconscious after being restrained, RTE reports.

The captain declared a “medical emergency” and the plane landed at around 5:40pm on Sunday afternoon.

It is unclear how the man died but he was pronounced dead at the scene.

A woman, who is believed to have been accompanying the dead man, was arrested at the scene and is being held at Togher police station in Cork.

Around 170 passengers and crew were safely evacuated from the airplane and have been interviewed by police.

They returned to Dublin by bus.

The other man injured in the incident has been taken to hospital.

A post-mortem will be carried out in due course.

Well, if it was the Zombie apocalypse - there wouldn't be a corpse to autopsy would there?

Is it bad that i kinda want this to happen?

time to get a crossbow ready

u didn't notice did you...

the man that was bitten has been taken to hospital.... he may be patient 1... as apparently patient zero is dead and will be autopsied...

and if patient 1 becomes a zombie and attacks the hospital staff... then we have a dawn of the dead scenario

This post was edited by caswallen on Oct 20 2015 12:37am

yes, I read he bite someone then died, so I'll re-think the "apocalypse" thing if he comes back to life - but it's actually just a story to scare little kids - like Santa Claus - cept scary stuff.

...the guy had packets of drugs inside his body and apparently one or more of them burst .

probably, the exact same thing happened a few years ago in Miami - and when your system has ingested deathly levels of intoxications reality slips away to where you probably feel like a zombie. So he probably was a "zombie" in his mind.

xD same here ahaha

look like it was a cocazombie !!

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/20/packages-found-body-man-died-aer-lingus-flight