Doha-bound Air IndiGo flight makes emergency landing in Karachi as passenger dies mid-air 

Kashif Imran 
IndiGo aircraft are pictured on the tarmac at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata, India, on October 17, 2019. (AFP/File)
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  • The Indian airliner was 16 nautical miles east of Panjgur when the pilot requested to divert it to Karachi
  • Pakistan’s civil aviation says the pilot had informed about a Nigerian national with respiratory, pulse failure

ISLAMABAD: A Doha-bound Air IndiGo flight made an emergency landing in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi in the wee hours of Monday, the Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (PCAA) said, after a passenger died aboard the aircraft. 

The Indian airliner was 16 nautical miles east of Panjgur when the pilot requested to divert it toward Karachi, according to a PCAA spokesperson. 

The pilot had requested for a doctor and an ambulance, saying that a 60-year-old Nigerian national was aboard with respiratory and pulse failure. 

“The plane landed at around 12:12am with 163 passengers aboard,” the PCAA spokesperson said in a statement on Monday. 

The Air IndiGo plane left for Doha, Qatar at 4:06am, according to the statement. 

The aircraft also took the body of the deceased Nigerian national to Doha. 

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