Delhi-Chennai flight lands in city after 73-year-old passenger dies mid-air

 

 

A 73-year-old man onboard the Delhi-Chennai IndiGo flight who had difficulty breathing later passed away mid-air, on Wednesday. The IndiGo flight 6E2579 made an emergency landing at Nagpur’s Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport at around 5.30 pm. A team of doctors and paramedics from the KIMS-Kingsway Hospitals, who were stationed at the airport, brought the man to the hospital in an ambulance but it was found that he had died mid-air. Uttamchand Jain, a resident of Chennai, was travelling to Chennai from Delhi.

 

He felt uneasy mid-air. A doctor was travelling on the same flight, who tried to revive him by giving Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) but in vain. Sensing the seriousness of the situation, the pilot decided to land the flight at the city airport. Following the emergency, the airport authority informed KIMS-Kingsway Hospital unit whose ambulance was ready at the airport. Necessary arrangements were made at the hospital. “Jain was taken to the hospital where after initial check-up, doctors found that he had breathed his last in the flight itself during the journey,” informed Aejaz Shami, Head-Branding and Communications, KIMS-Kingsway Hospitals. According to Uttamchand Jain’s relatives, he was a patient of hypertension.