Japanese passenger dies inflight after eating 246 packets of cocaine

New Delhi : Mexican prosecutors say that a Japanese man died aboard an airliner shortly after takeoff from Mexico City. According to medical report, he had ingested around 246 packets of cocaine, resultic in cardiac arrest from a drug overdose.

Sunday’s statement was issued by the attorney general’s office for the northern state of Sonora, where an autopsy was performed following an emergency stop by the Aeromexico flight in Hermosillo.

The prosecutor’s office says other passengers reported seeing the man convulsing in the early hours of Friday as the jetliner headed for Narita, Japan.

Authorities identified the man only as Udo “N’‘ and said he had travelled to Mexico’s capital from Bogota, Colombia.