A Spanish pilot was found dead in a hotel room in Paraguay.

A Spanish pilot was found dead in a hotel room in Asunción , the capital of Paraguay, due to a suspected "sudden death," which led to the cancellation of a flight to Madrid, police said Wednesday, investigating the incident.

The head of the Sixth Police Station in Asunción, José Santacruz, told EFE that on Tuesday morning they received an alert from the 911 emergency system about a Spanish pilot who "woke up with no signs of life" in his hotel room.

The 47-year-old man was staying with ten flight crew members, who "noticed he wasn't getting up" and alerted the hotel's staff, Santacruz said. Members of the police and the Public Prosecutor's Office responded to the call, as did medical personnel who tried unsuccessfully to revive the man.

Santacruz indicated that the medical examiner ordered the body to be transferred to a judicial morgue, where, he assured, "some tests" will be performed to corroborate "the circumstances of the death."

The director of airports for the National Directorate of Civil Aeronautics (Dinac), Rubén Aguilar, told Monumental radio that an Air Europa flight scheduled to depart on Tuesday from Silvio Pettirossi International Airport, serving Asunción, bound for Madrid "has been canceled."

The airline justified the delay with an "operational reason," Aguilar added, without commenting on the pilot's death. However, local media reported that the deceased was affiliated with the Spanish airline.