A WOMAN has died after plunging from a cruise ship into the English Channel in a horror 2am fall.
The cruise ship passenger was winched out of the English Channel today after falling off the vessel in the middle of the night.
French coastguards confirmed on Saturday that the unidentified person disappeared off the MSC Virtuosa at around 2am.
The £650m vessel, which has a crew of more than 1500 and which can carry up to 6300 passengers, was steaming from Lisbon to Southampton when disaster struck.
An emergency alert was received at around 3am French time, saying that a person was missing,’ a coastguards source told The Sun.
A helicopter was scrambled to a search area just north Les Casquets rocks, near the Channel Islands of Alderney.
‘The person was winched out of the sea, and is being treated by emergency services’ the source added.
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