Overview
- The incident occurred on October 24, 2025 at Tenerife Sur Airport, where a man in his 80s pushed his 75-year-old wife in a wheelchair toward security.
- Private security staff noticed the woman was unresponsive with an abnormally low body temperature and activated medical and Guardia Civil protocols.
- Forensic examination at the Instituto de Medicina Legal found no external signs of violence and concluded the death was natural.
- The Guardia Civil states the man was not detained and no case was opened after the forensic results, though some outlets report an initial arrest and an open inquiry that conflict with the official account.
- Reports say the husband gave conflicting explanations, alternately citing death hours earlier and blaming the airport, and the couple held tickets for a flight to the United Kingdom.