Man Suffers Cardiac Arrest And Dies On Mumbai-Bangkok IndiGo Flight; Flight Diverted To Myanmar

by Vaishalee Kalvankar
Man Suffers Cardiac Arrest And Dies On Mumbai-Bangkok IndiGo Flight; Flight Diverted To Myanmar

A flight from Mumbai to Bangkok was diverted to Myanmar. A passenger on-board suffered a heart attack, and due to a medical emergency, the flight was diverted. This incident took place on IndiGo flight 6E-57 on Sunday and the passenger passed away. This comes some days after a similar incident took place on another IndiGo flight from Ranchi.

Man Paases Away On A Mumbai-Bangkok IndiGo Flight

A passenger on IndiGo flight 6E-57 on Sunday suffered a heart attack and passed away. The flight departed from Mumbai to Bangkok at 4 pm. A co-passenger from the Mumbai-Bangkok flight informed that less than an hour after the flight left Mumbai, the man suffered a heart attack.

The passenger died mid-flight, and the plane was then diverted to an airport in Myanmar. The flight then took off from Myanmar five hours later. Many similar incidents have happened in the past.

On Friday, a passenger became unconscious on the IndiGo flight from Ranchi to Pune, and the flight had to be diverted to Nagpur. The passenger was then rushed for medical assistance but was declared dead at the hospital.

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Incidents Of Medical Emergency

A week ago, a Delhi-Doha flight was forced to divert to Pakistan for an emergency landing due to a medical emergency. The passenger, a 60-year-old Nigerian national, Abdullah, was then provided medical assistance but sadly did not survive. The flight was parked at the Jinnah International Airport for 5 hours following this. The plane then left for its return to Delhi.

Almost a month ago, Air India’s New York-Delhi non-stop flight had to be diverted to London’s Heathrow Airport due to a medical emergency. When a medical emergency came up, the plane was in Norwegian airspace, and the pilots decided to divert it. The passenger with a medical emergency was from a group of seven people.

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