A cabin crew member has died after a passenger plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Switzerland.

Thick clouds of smoke filled the aircraft as it experienced an engine problem during a flight from Bucharest, Romania, to Zurich, Switzerland.

The Airbus A220-300 jet, with 74 passengers and five crew on board, made an unscheduled emergency landing in Graz, Austria on December 23.

Passengers and crew were quickly evacuated off the jet, and 12 people were urgently treated at the scene.

One worker was airlifted to hospital and taken into intensive care, and a second cabin crew member was also dashed to hospital.

One of the cabin crew members ob board the plane has now died a week on.

A Swiss International Air Lines spokesman said: ‘We must report, with the deepest of sorrow and regret, that our young colleague died in the hospital in Graz on Monday.’

Chief executive Jens Fehlinger added: ‘We are devastated at our dear colleague’s death.

Source: Dailymail.com