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Indigo flight diverted to Jaipur as passenger falls ill

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Indigo flight diverted to Jaipur as passenger falls ill

Mumbai - The captain of the flight 6E495 informed the ATC about the medical emergency so the plane was landed.

Published: Thu 8 Mar 2018, 11:37 AM

Updated: Thu 8 Mar 2018, 3:46 PM

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  • PTI

A Chandigarh-bound Indigo flight from Mumbai was forced to land at Sanganer airport here today after an elderly woman suffered a cardiac arrest on board.

The woman Sitalaxmi Menon, who is in her late 60s, is being treated at a private hospital near the airport and the flight left for Chandigarh after the brief halt, the airport director J S Balhara told PTI.

The captain of the flight 6E495 informed the ATC about the medical emergency so the plane was landed, he said.



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