VARANASI: A New Delhi-bound SpiceJet flight made an emergency landing Friday at the Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport here after a Thai national onboard suffered a heart attack, police said. The patient identified as Atabot Thngcusorn (53) was rushed to a nearby hospital where doctors declared him dead, they said.
The SpiceJet flight took off from Bangkok at 7:40 am with 189 passengers, including a 22-member Thai group of tourists. Among the tourists were Atabot, his wife, sister and seven other family members, the police said. The plane had to a make emergency landing at the Varanasi airport to provide immediate medical facility to the passenger, they added.
He was rushed by an ambulance from the airport to a nearby hospital, where doctors declared him dead, LBS Airport Director Anil Kumar Rai said.
The Thai embassy has been informed about the matter, he said. PTI