Passenger dies onboard aircraft

Mumbai: A 63-year-old passenger, Rajendra Desai, died onboard a Mumbai-bound Jet Airways flight on Monday. According to sources, Desai who was travelling with his wife Nutan from London on flight 9W-117 was suffering from pulmonary fibrosis, which is a terminal lung disease.
“He was travelling to India for treatment but passed away during the flight, at 6:40 am,” according to the source.
When the Boeing 777 landed at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport around 11 am, Desai was pronounced dead on arrival and taken to the R N Cooper Hospital in Juhu for a post-mortem.
While a doctor at the state-run mortuary at the R N Cooper Hospital said “The opinion is held reserved as we are awaiting the clinical analysis and histopathology reports,” he added that Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) was also being looked into as a possible cause of death.
27/09/07 Mumbai Newsline

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