On Sunday morning, an AirAsia Bengaluru-Kolkata flight had to be diverted to Bhubaneswar and make an emergency landing at Biju Patnaik International Airport to save a passenger who had fallen ill mid-flight.
With permission from air traffic control, the flight was diverted to Bhubaneswar, where it landed at 7.56 a.m. The airport authorities had dispatched an ambulance ahead of time to transport the patient to the hospital. Despite all efforts to help the passenger, he could not be saved.
Doctors at Capital Hospital, however, declared the passenger, Habibur Khan (27) of West Bengal, dead.
