Sick flier forces landing

A passenger suffered a miscarriage mid-air, prompting the pilot to make an unscheduled landing at Calcutta airport on Monday.
Nimade Sari Orawati, 32, a software professional from Singapore, was operated on at a city nursing home, where she has been kept in an intensive care unit.
After flying for several hours, she suddenly started bleeding. The passengers — there were more than 300 on board — panicked as her condition worsened.
With her condition deteriorating, the pilot decided to divert the flight to Calcutta airport, which was the nearest “with the infrastructure to handle a big aircraft”, said a Singapore Airlines official.
The flight landed at Calcutta at 1.05pm and Orawati was rushed to the international terminal building in an ambulance, which was waiting in the bay.The airline officials took Orawati to the nursing home, where she underwent a surgery.
In another incident, an Air Deccan flight from Dibrugarh to Calcutta made a “priority landing” at 9.30am after one of the passengers complained of uneasiness.
10/07/07 The Telegraph

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