Hyderabad-bound flight makes emergency landing in Pak after 'medical emergency'; passenger dies
PTC News Desk: IndiGo's Hyderabad-bound international flight made an emergency landing in Pakistan's Karachi on Thursday after a passenger experienced a medical emergency on board.
The passenger did not survive and was declared dead upon arrival.
The incident took place on Wednesday.
"There was a medical emergency on board IndiGo flight 6E 68 operating from Jeddah to Hyderabad. The captain diverted the flight to Karachi, where the passenger was attended to by a doctor on arrival," the airline stated.
"Unfortunately, the passenger did not survive and was declared dead on arrival," the statement said.
"The flight departed from Karachi after completing formalities and landed in Hyderabad at 0908 IST," the airline said in a statement.
In August of this year, an Indigo flight from Mumbai to Ranchi was diverted to Nagpur due to a medical emergency on board.
The passenger was offloaded and taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
- ANI
