Overview
- The passenger became unresponsive during the flight on Friday, Aug. 7, and crew members and other passengers performed CPR before the plane landed at LAX where emergency responders pronounced him dead.
- The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner identified the deceased as 22-year-old Rain McMillan Walmsey and recorded the place of death as "LAX Southwest plane" with the cause marked as "deferred."
- Southwest Airlines confirmed a "medical incident involving a customer" on Flight 958 from Dallas to Los Angeles but provided no additional details and referred questions to local authorities.
- The examiner’s "deferred" finding means further tests such as toxicology or additional autopsy review are needed, so a final cause of death could take days to weeks to determine.
- Airline crew and passengers followed standard emergency procedures by administering CPR and calling for paramedics, a sequence that underscores how sudden in-flight medical events are handled and why investigators now focus on test results and records to determine what triggered the episode.