Legendary Australia spinner Shane Warne’s mortal remains arrived in Melbourne, Australia on a private jet from Thailand. Warne had passed away at the age of 52 while vacationing in the Thai islands of Koh Samui.

He passed away due to an apparent heart attack and apparently an autopsy performed on the body also revealed nothing amiss about the cause of his death.

On Thursday morning, his coffin, wrapped in the Australian flag, was taken from the morgue to Bangkok airport before being loaded onto a private Dassault Falcon 7X jet. Australian government officials, including Australia’s ambassador to Thailand, Allan McKinnon, were at the airport on Thursday as the charter flight departed.

More than a dozen fans were at the airport for the arrival of his body.

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The popular former spin-bowler and media personality will be buried at a private funeral, his family said last week. A state memorial service will follow at the 100,000-seater Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) on March 30. A stand will also be named after Shane Warne in the MCG.

The ceremony will include highlights of Warne’s record-breaking career on the scoreboard, while other more touching, personal tributes are expected.

The Sydney Morning Herald reported that Warne’s body was expected to be collected by a funeral home. If the family requests further information on his death, his body could be taken for another autopsy at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine.

(Reuters and Sydney Morning Herald inputs)