New Delhi: Doha-bound IndiGo flight diverted to Pakistan’s Karachi due to a medical emergency onboard, news agency ANI reported an airline official as saying.
Doha bound IndiGo flight diverted to Pakistan’s Karachi due to a medical emergency onboard, says an airline official to ANI. pic.twitter.com/KuVJoIJmwm
— ANI (@ANI) March 13, 2023
Multiple posts surfaced on Twitter about the development.
According to a journalist with Pakistan’s Dunya News, the ailing passenger was a Nigerian. “The pilot took permission to land when the passenger’s condition worsened, the passenger died before landing,” he wrote.
Emergency landing of an Indian airline in #Karachithe pilot took permission to land when the passenger’s condition worsened, the passenger died before landing. #Indigo #India pic.twitter.com/gkVIxgdRnK
— Bilal Naseer (@BNKoffical) March 12, 2023
More details about the incident are awaited.