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Camden New Journal - by ROISIN GADELRAB
Published: 21 June 2007

Dr Daniel Turnberg - The Royal Free renal expert was killed in a Malawi plane crash last Saturday

Doctor dies in air crash

A LABOUR peer is mourning the loss of his son, a Royal Free Hospital doctor, who died in a plane crash in Malawi on Saturday.
Dr Daniel Turnberg, 37, the son of Labour peer Sir Leslie Arnold Turnberg, was an expert in renal medicine at the Hampstead hospital.
Dr Turnberg, who lived in Belsize Park, was on a cycling holiday with four other British tourists. They were flying from Lilongwe, capital of Malawi, to a game reserve when their plane crashed in a ravine on Saturday. The pilot and passengers were all killed.
Dr Turnberg’s family were too grief-stricken to speak at their Swiss Cottage home yesterday (Wednesday). Sir Leslie is a former president of the Royal College of Physicians.
Colleagues at the Royal Free Hospital and University College Hospital, where Dr Turnberg worked on and off for more than 10 years, have paid tribute to him. Dr Helen Lachmann said he was a keen mountain biker who loved travelling to unusual places. She added: “The whole renal unit at the Royal Free is devastated. He was a wonderful doctor.”

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