Man chokes to death in flight

A MAN choked to death while eating an airline meal on a flight bound for New Zealand.

Robert Rippingale had been eating a beef dinner on a Jetstar flight when his girlfriend noticed him shaking, the New Zealand Herald reported.

“I thought he was laughing very hard, then I looked at his face and his eyes were rolling and he couldn’t talk,” Vanessa Preechakul, 27, said. “One minute we were kissing, the next he was choking.”

He was pronounced dead 90 minutes into the flight from Singapore.