ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An American Airlines pilot died after having a medical episode just before landing in Albuquerque.
The Albuquerque Journal reports that the captain declared a medical emergency on flight 1353 a couple of minutes before landing at Albuquerque International Sunport on Wednesday evening.
A spokesman for the airline tells the newspaper that the captain landed the flight from Dallas-Fort Worth without incident. The plane taxied normally to a gate and was met by paramedics.
American Airlines first officer William “Mike” Grubbs was pronounced dead.
There was no immediate word on a cause of death.
In 2015, an American Airlines pilot died on a flight from Phoenix to Boston.
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