OSAKA -- An Asiana Airlines jet made an unscheduled landing at Kansai International Airport early Wednesday after one of its passengers fell ill and later died, aviation officials said.

A 61-year-old South Korean man suffered a cardiac arrest during Asiana Airlines Flight 204 bound for Los Angeles from Incheon Airport near Seoul at around 11:30 p.m. on Tuesday, according to the officials.

The aircraft, a Boeing 777-200 twin-engine jet with 303 passengers and crewmembers aboard, landed at Kansai International Airport at around 2 a.m. However, a doctor who was aboard the flight pronounced him dead.

The jet took off from Kansai International Airport for Los Angeles at 4:18 a.m. on Wednesday.

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