Muscat-Chennai Flight Passenger Dies Mid-air, Cardiac Arrest Suspected

A 38-year-old man allegedly died on board a Muscat-to-Chennai flight in a suspected cardiac arrest on Sunday.

The deceased — identified as K Dhanasekaran — was a resident of Sivaganga’s Ilayankudi. Employed in Muskat, Dhanasekaran was coming back home for vacation, a Times of India report quoted the police as saying.

The cabin crew went to check on him when all the passengers deboarded the plan after landing in Chennai except Dhanasekaran. The crew thought that he had fallen asleep and attempted to wake him, only to find him unconscious. Soon after they alerted the ground authorities.

A medical team took Dhanasekaran to the airport’s emergency medical centre and checked his vitals, following which the doctors declared him dead.

The airport police recovered his corpse and sent it for post mortem. Dhanasekaran’s family members have been informed, said police.

Previous Cases- 

Previously, on August 22, a 62-year-old passenger on board a Mumbai-Ranchi IndiGo flight started vomiting blood mid-flight following which the plane made an emergency landing at Nagpur’s Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport.

The deceased, Devanand Tiwari, was rushed to a medical college in Nagpur where he was declared brought dead. He was suffering from CKD and tuberculosis and vomited blood on board, said, Aejaz Shami, DGM, Branding and Communications of KIMS Hospital.

Earlier, on August 17, the pilot of an IndiGo flight collapsed and died at the Nagpur boarding gate, just before he was about to operate a flight to Pune. At approximately 12 noon, the 40-year-old pilot, scheduled to operate the airline’s Nagpur-Pune flight, experienced a collapse while seated within the security hold area, as per reports.

Initial findings suggest that his demise resulted from a “sudden cardiac arrest,” as indicated by KIMS-Kingsway Hospital, where he was swiftly transported. Aejaz Shami, the hospital’s spokesperson told PTI that their emergency team administered CPR, albeit with no positive response.

The pilot was pronounced brought dead upon his arrival at the hospital.

In March this year, an IndiGo airline plane made an emergency landing at Karachi airport in Pakistan after one of its passengers felt unwell. The passenger, a Nigerian, was declared dead on arrival by the airport medical team, IndiGo Airline said.

The passenger on IndiGo Airline flight 6E-1736 felt unwell mid-flight, after which the captain of the plane contacted the Karachi Air Traffic Control and relayed the information regarding medical emergency.

The pilot of the IndiGo flight sought emergency landing permission due to a medical emergency, which was granted by the Air Traffic Controller at the Karachi airport.

IndiGo airline, in a statement, said: IndiGo flight 6E-1736, operating from Delhi to Doha was diverted to Karachi due to a medical emergency on board. Unfortunately, on arrival, the passenger was declared dead by the airport medical team.”