• August 17, 2023

IndiGo’s Nagpur-Pune flight’s pilot collapses at boarding gate, declared dead in hospital | India News – Times of India

IndiGo’s Nagpur-Pune flight’s pilot collapses at boarding gate, declared dead in hospital | India News – Times of India
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MUMBAI: An IndiGo pilot who was to operate a flight from Nagpur to Pune fell unconscious and collapsed at the boarding gate on Thursday. He was taken to a hospital where he was declared dead, said sources.

This is the third case of sudden death involving pilots this week, with two of the deceased being Indian pilots.
On Wednesday, a senior pilot with Qatar Airways, who was flying from Delhi to Doha as a passenger, fell ill on board and died. The flight QR 579 was diverted to Dubai following the medical emergency. The pilot had earlier worked with Alliance Air and SpiceJet.

A statement from IndiGo is awaited.
Apart from the two cases of sudden deaths in India, on August 14 a pilot died on Chile’s LATAM flight from Miami to Santiago, Chile. In two other cases involving incapacitation, a United Airlines pilot operating a flight from Sarasota to Newark suffered a heart attack on board the flight. On August 7 a co-pilot operating a TigerAir flight from Sapporo to Taipei had a medical emergency soon after the plane landed at its destination.




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