A Hyderabad-bound worldwide flight of IndiGo made an emergency touchdown in Pakistan’s Karachi after a passenger skilled a medical emergency on board, the airline stated on Thursday.
The passenger couldn’t survive and was declared useless on arrival.
The incident was reported on Wednesday.
“There was a medical emergency on board IndiGo flight 6E 68 working from Jeddah to Hyderabad. The captain diverted the flight to Karachi, the place the passenger was attended to by a physician on arrival,” the airline stated in an announcement.
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“Sadly, the passenger didn’t survive and was declared useless on arrival,” it stated.
“The flight departed from Karachi after finishing formalities and landed in Hyderabad at 0908 IST,” the airline added.
In an analogous incident reported in August this 12 months, an Indigo flight from Mumbai to Ranchi was diverted to Nagpur after a medical emergency on board.
The passenger was offloaded and rushed to a close-by hospital the place he was declared useless.
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