An Indiana mother of two was flying home from a week-long couples' vacation in the Dominican Republic Feb. 28 when she suddenly died on the plane, according to her friend. The American Airlines flight was headed from Punta Cana toward Charlotte when Stefanie Smith, 41, began convulsing soon after takeoff, forcing the plane to divert to Turks and Caicos, Smith's friend, Maria Yannotti, told Fox News Digital.
Smith's boyfriend asked flight attendants for help, and they began performing CPR, to no avail. The Turks and Caicos Island Police announced that day they received a call at 6:12 p.m. from 'the Air Traffic Control Tower requesting medical assistance for a 41-year-old female, who at the time was receiving .' Authorities dispatched a medical team and police to the scene and transported Smith to the Cheshire Hall Medical Centre, where she was pronounced dead. Just before her plane took off, Smith texted Yannotti at 4:55 p.m.
mean, he was sitting right there beside her. She took her last breath not knowing that was probably going to be her last breath,' Yannotti said. Autopsy and toxicology results have yet to be released. Fox News Digital has reached out to the owner of the resort where Smith and Yannotti were staying and the State Department.
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