IndiGo flight makes emergency landing at Karachi airport after passenger falls ill: Report
14-Dec-2024 11:21 PM 8076
Islamabad, Dec 14 (Reporter) An IndiGo flight on way to Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah from New Delhi made an emergency landing at the Karachi airport on Friday night due to a passenger falling ill, the Pakistan Airport Authority (PAA) said on Saturday. The IndiGo flight made a “medical emergency landing” at the Jinnah International Airport at 10:54pm on Friday night, a PAA statement said, Dawn reported. It said a passenger was “immediately provided with medicines”, following which the person’s “condition improved”. After a doctor declared the passenger fit to fly, the flight departed for its destination of Jeddah at around 2am, the statement added. According to FlightRadar24, which tracks flights, the aircraft was an Airbus A321-271NX model with flight number 6E63. There have been previous instances of Indian airlines making emergency landings at Jinnah International Airport, including two in July 2022. On July 5, 2022, a Dubai-bound SpiceJet aircraft took off from Delhi for Dubai but was diverted to Karachi after the captain reported a fault. The airline cited the reason for the “normal landing” as an indicator light malfunctioning. During that incident, the passengers were initially asked to stay inside the plane. SpiceJet said the passengers were safely disembarked before a replacement aircraft was sent to Karachi to take them to Dubai. A week later, an IndiGo airline plane heading from Sharjah to India’s Hyderabad landed “safely” at the Karachi airport after reporting a “technical defect”. The next day, India’s aviation regulator had issued a warning notice to SpiceJet after a review of recent incidents showed “poor internal safety oversight and inadequate maintenance actions” by the airline. The PAA, established on August 9 is a public sector autonomous body working under the aviation ministry...////...
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