Delhi to Srinagar flight makes emergency landing at Chandigarh airport

Tribune News Service

Mohali, November 8

A GoAir flight from Delhi to Srinagar made an emergency landing at the Chandigarh International Airport here yesterday after a passenger developed some health problem.

According to information, the GoAir flight, which took off from Delhi at 11:30 am, had to make an emergency landing at the Chandigarh airport at 12:15 pm on Saturday.

A passenger, aged around 45, developed some heart problem as his blood pressure dropped drastically. After getting treatment at a hospital here, he boarded the flight to Srinagar today.

An airport official said the pilot of the GoAir flight made a SOS call to the air traffic controller, Chandigarh, demanding permission to make an emergency landing after the passenger developed complications.

An ambulance was summed at the tarmac in which the passenger, along with his wife, was sent to a hospital in Mohali. After undergoing treatment at the hospital, the passenger boarded the GoAir flight to Srinagar on Sunday, said the official.

Ajay Bhardwaj, Chief Executive Officer, Chandigarh International Airport Limited, said they provided an ambulance to the passenger. He was taken to a hospital. They helped him board a flight to Srinagar at 3 pm today.

He said tenders for an airport medical inspection room had been floated. They had started receiving bids to manage and operate the room as well as to provide 24-hour ambulance service. At present, doctors of the Civil Hospital, Mohali, were on duty and an ambulance from a private hospital was made available in case of an emergency.