Flight makes emergency landing in Nagpur

Nagpur: A Gorakhpur- Mumbai flight of Spice- Jet made an emergency landing at Nagpur airport in Maharashtra due to a medical emergency involving a pregnant passenger, a senior official said.

Air India Airport Services Ltd’s senior manager Sunil Sangole said that a SpiceJet flight heading to Mumbai from Gorakhpur with 182 passengers and crew members on board made an emergency landing at the Nagpur airport at 12.32 pm after a passenger, who was three-month pregnant, had a medical emergency.

The woman passenger was rushed to a private hospital by 12.42 pm. The flight flew to Mumbai at 5.17 pm.

All the agencies like Nagpur ATC, Mihan India Ltd and the airport ground handling staff handled the passengers and medical emergency nicely, Sangole said.

A doctor of the private hospital, who attended to the woman passenger, said she was fine now. —(PTI)