The Jeddah-bound IndiGo flight was diverted to Karachi airport on Saturday as there was a medical emergency on board and later returned to Delhi.
Civil Aviation Authority of Pakistan (CAA) sources said the plane was in Pakistani airspace when the plane made an emergency landing at Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport after a male passenger fell seriously ill.
“There was a medical emergency on IndiGo flight 6E 63 operating from Delhi to Jeddah,” the airline said in a statement.
IndiGo said the captain diverted the flight to Karachi, where a doctor attended to the passenger on arrival.
“After completing the necessary formalities, the flight departed from Karachi and returned to its origin to provide further assistance to the medical passenger,” the airline said, adding that after deboarding the passenger at Delhi, the flight departed for Jeddah.
According to Geo News, the passenger was a 55-year-old Indian.
CAA sources said the pilot of the flight contacted air traffic control at the Karachi airport after giving oxygen to the passenger but he did not recover.
Air traffic control allowed the plane to land at Karachi on humanitarian grounds.
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