A PASSENGER died on a flight from Dubai to Manchester.

The elderly man died aboard Emirates flight EK 21 that landed at Manchester Airport's Terminal 1 at just after 7.30am today following the 7 hours and 13 minutes journey.

There are no suspicious circumstances to the incident and a medical team met the aircraft, a B77W, met the plane on the tarmac before an ambulance was called at around 8am.

The airline expressed its condolences to customer's family.