Passenger dies on Aeroflot flight

Passenger dies on Aeroflot flight
The Aeroflot logo above a company office (archive image)

Police in Toronto, Canada, have interviewed nearly 200 passengers from a Russian Aeroflot airliner on which a man died after an alleged drunken row.

Reports say he had been drinking when a dispute erupted and he was subdued, apparently by both passengers and crew, before being led to another seat.

One passenger told Canada's CBC News the man had been "bothering" a woman.

She was "shouting back at him because he obviously did something that he shouldn't have done", the witness said.

Canadian authorities are awaiting the results of the post-mortem before commenting on the likely cause of death, CBC reports.

Toronto's Pearson International Airport was not commenting on the incident after the plane's arrival early on Wednesday evening, following a nine-hour flight.

The dead man, said to be a Russian in his early 40s, has not been identified.

"The guy was really drunk and annoying people," one 34-year-old witness, named as Mike, told the Globe and Mail newspaper.

Other passengers interviewed by the newspaper said several people on the plane had been drinking alcohol from the bottle.

Attendants moved the man away to a separate location from where he was sitting toward the business-class area of the plane, police told CBC News.

A passenger reportedly saw him lie down and turn blue.