Crew members decided to make an emergency landing and worked to revive the pilot, Üstün said, but he died before the plane landed. Data from the tracking site FlightAware shows that the Airbus A350 landed at John F. Kennedy International Airport just before 6 a.m.

The wife of a pilot landed a small plane in Bakersfield after her husband suffered a heart attack. A local official said it was "unprecedented" for someone with no formal training to land a plane in such a manner.

A woman successfully landed a private plane after the pilot, her husband, had an apparent heart attack mid-flight.