A passenger on a Delta Air Lines flight was declared dead on Monday evening after the flight returned to Detroit for a medical emergency.

Delta flight 583 took off from Detroit Metropolitan Airport for Shanghai at 4:35 p.m. At around 7:15, a "medical emergency was declared," according to a Delta spokesperson. The crew made the decision to return to Detroit, landing at 10:35 p.m.

"The aircraft landed without incident and the passenger in question was removed," the spokesperson said. The passenger was then declared dead by airport medical staff.

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The Associated Press reports the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office on Tuesday identified the passenger as Yury Rubel and said he died of hypertensive cardiovascular disease. The death was ruled a natural death. An age and hometown of the passenger weren't immediately available.

A spokeswoman for the Wayne County Airport Authority said the agency's public safety team responded to a medical emergency on a Delta aircraft. When they got there, they found that the passenger was deceased.

Flight 583 was rescheduled and took off at 8:20 a.m. on Tuesday.

Associated Press contributed to this story. Contact reporter Marc Daalder at mdaalder@freepress.com or on Twitter at @marcdaalder.

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