Delhi-bound flight makes landing in Indore for medical emergency; passenger declared dead at hospital
A Delhi-bound Vistara flight was diverted to Devi Ahilyabai Holkar International Airport here after a passenger complained of breathlessness and fainted, an airport official said on Friday.
The Vistara flight UK-818, which took off from Bengaluru, landed in Indore at 9.30 pm on Thursday and the passenger was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was declared dead, he said.
“Manoj Kumar Agrawal, who was travelling in Vistara’s flight, complained of breathlessness and fainted. The Bengaluru-Delhi flight landed under medical emergency around 9.30 pm at Indore airport after being diverted,” the airport’s in-charge director Pramod Kumar Sharma said.
