Hyderabad: A Hyderabad-bound international flight of IndiGo Airlines made an emergency landing in Pakistan’s Karachi after a passenger onboard experienced a medical emergency.
The incident that was reported late on Wednesday night came to light on Friday. Despite making quick adjustments to landing in another country, the passenger could not survive and was declared dead on arrival by doctors in Karachi.
IndiGo Airlines, in an official statement, said, “There was a medical emergency on board 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. ”
“Unfortunately, the passenger did not survive and was declared dead on arrival,” it said and added that the flight departed from Karachi after completing all formalities and landed in Hyderabad at 0908 IST.
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