The renowned professor and her husband had fallen asleep on their flight across to France - but when the plane landed Professor Linda Cardozo could not be roused.
Professor Linda Cardozo tragically passed away while on a flight from London to Nice on Thursday night, just a week after celebrating her 73rd birthday.
Professor Linda Cardozo, a professor of urogynaecology and consultant gynaecologist at King's College Hospital, London, died on a British Airways flight to Nice with her husband