Passenger dies on city bound flight

HEART ISSUES

Passenger dies on city bound flight

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Lucknow:03.03.2021 

A passenger apparently died of heart attack in a Lucknow bound IndiGo flight on Tuesday early morning while the plane was in Pakistan airspace.

The deceased was identified as Raza Habibur Rehman Ali, who was on wheelchair assistance and was travelling from Sharjah to Lucknow.

Sources said the flight left Sharjah around 1:50am on Tuesday with 158 passengers and had to reach Lucknow by 6:55am, but the pilots had to make medical emergency landing at Karachi airport around 3:20am when Raza fell unconscious apparently after suffering a heart attack.

“On arrival at Karachi airport, the passenger was declared dead.

Abhishek Jaiswal, PRO

of Lucknow airport, said, “The victim’s body was alighted at Ahmedabad airport and sent to a local government hospital. The entire aircraft was sanitised before leaving for Lucknow.”

The flight landed at Lucknow airport at 1:47pm