Assam: Passenger Dies Aboard-Flight From Chennai To Guwahati

Guwahati: A passenger from Assam passed away mid-flight on Sunday under mysterious circumstances while travelling from Chennai to Guwahati on an IndiGo flight.

The deceased person was identified as Haider Ali and was a resident of Bongaigaon.

As per reports, the incident occurred on flight number 6006 which was coming from Chennai to Guwahati and landed at 7:20 pm at Guwahati's Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport.

However, the exact reason behind the passenger's death is yet to be ascertained.

In January last year, a seven-year-old passenger of a Lucknow-Mumbai GoAir flight was declared brought dead at a Nagpur hospital after she was rushed there following an emergency landing of the plane at 7:25 AM at Nagpur airport.

Residents of Seheri Khat, Siddarth Nagar, Chaffa of Uttar Pradesh, and Ayushi Punvasi Prajapati were flying with her father in GoAir flight G8307. Officials informed that the duo appeared financially weak and the father was unable to explain his daughter's health condition.

Ayushi was attended to by a medical team from Kingsway Hospital who sent her to Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH). Kingsway Hospital's Dr Mohammed Ahteshamoddin informed the media that the girl was already on automated external defibrillators when they reached.

Ayushi was sent to GMCH in a cardiac life support ambulance. GMCH doctors found her unresponsive.

However, the exact cause of Ayushi's death was not known immediately at that time following which the viscera samples were preserved to investigate the cause of her death.

According to the officials, initial investigations seem to underline the cause of cardiac arrest brought on by high altitude.

Officials said that Ayushi was found to be anaemic with a haemoglobin level of 2.5 gms.

"Patients below 8 to 10gms of haemoglobin are not permitted air journeys. Ayushi's records show she had just 2.5gms. They were going for her treatment to Mumbai," they added.

They also informed that the girl's father failed to mention any medical case history to the airport medical team as well.

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