{"id":47846,"date":"2024-09-09T11:04:24","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T06:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=47846"},"modified":"2024-09-09T11:04:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T06:04:24","slug":"passenger-dies-mid-air-flight-makes-emergency-landing-in-karachi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/passenger-dies-mid-air-flight-makes-emergency-landing-in-karachi\/","title":{"rendered":"Passenger dies mid-air, flight makes emergency landing in Karachi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">KARACHI: On Monday, an <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/fia-bust-international-human-trafficking-ring-with-indian-connections\/\">international flight<\/a> was forced to make an emergency landing at <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/another-confirmed-case-of-mpox-virus-detected-at-peshawar-airport\/\">Jinnah International Airport<\/a> in Karachi, Pakistan, due to a medical emergency onboard.<\/p>\n<p>The flight from Sharjah to Dhaka was diverted to Karachi after a passenger&#8217;s health worsened mid-air.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, the flight pilot promptly sought permission from<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pakistans-interior-ministry-redesignates-top-positions-related-to-visa-affairs\/\"> Air Traffic Control (ATC)<\/a> for an emergency landing, which was granted.<\/p>\n<p>The flight then made a priority landing at Karachi airport, where a medical team from the<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/caa-announces-new-boarding-guidelines-for-passengers-details-inside\/\"> Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)<\/a> was waiting to assist.<\/p>\n<p>Tragically, upon examination, the medical team found that the passenger had already passed away. The flight was grounded at Karachi airport for two hours before departing again at 6:15 am, continuing its journey to Dhaka.<\/p>\n<p>This incident is the second recent emergency landing due to a passenger&#8217;s health issue. On April 3, a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight from Karachi to Toronto made an emergency landing at Oslo International Airport in Norway after a passenger&#8217;s health deteriorated mid-flight. In that case, the ill passenger was left behind in Oslo, and the flight continued to Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>These incidents highlight the importance of emergency medical preparedness and response in aviation, as well as the challenges of handling medical emergencies at high altitudes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: On Monday, an international flight was forced to make an emergency landing at Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan, due to a medical emergency onboard. The flight from Sharjah to Dhaka was diverted to Karachi after a passenger&#8217;s health worsened mid-air. According to sources, the flight pilot promptly sought permission from Air Traffic Control [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":47849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5708,21479,21478,12116,12983,21480],"class_list":["post-47846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-jinnah-international-airport","tag-air-traffic-control-atc","tag-civil-aviation-authority-caa","tag-emergency-landing","tag-pakistan-international-airlines-pia","tag-passenger-dies-during-flight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47850,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47846\/revisions\/47850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}