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Plane, emergency landing, Ahmedabad, Spice Jet,

New Delhi - The passenger was declared dead at hospital due to cardiac arrest.

Published: Thu 26 Dec 2019, 1:20 PM

Updated: Thu 26 Dec 2019, 3:27 PM

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An Ahmedabad-bound Spice Jet aircraft made an emergency landing in Madhya Pradesh's Indore city on Thursday after a passenger fell sick, officials said, adding that he later died.
"On 26.12.2019 about 00:15hrs, a flight of Spice Jet SG-406 bound for Ahmedabad from Kolkata required emergency landing due to medical emergency. At about 00:31hrs, the flight landed," an official statement said.
The flight landed in Indore after which the airport manager along with the ambulance of the Airport Authority of India (AAI) and on-duty doctors immediately attended to the passenger named Jayvijay Vaghu who was then referred to Banthia Hospital for treatment.
"At Banthia Hospital the pax was further referred to M Y government hospital Indore for treatment where the said passenger was declared dead due to cardiac arrest," the statement read. The flight departed to its final destination at 2am.



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