Stress takes toll on 55-yr-old airport staffer

Mumbai: The last few minutes before a flight takes off are usually very stressful for airline staff, who have to conduct numerous checks before the departure. It was perhaps this stress that proved fatal for Ganpat Mayekar, a 55-year-old Air India deputy manager who died a sudden death at Mumbai Airport in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
Mayekar, who was on night duty, was calling out for a passenger who had failed to report to the departure gate when he suffered a cardiac arrest and collapsed. Airport officials said the incident took place around 1.30am when all the passengers except one had boarded the Mumbai-Hyderabad flight AI 126.
Mayekar was taken to a medical room, but did not respond. "He was then taken to a private hospital where he was declared dead," the official added.
27/03/08 Manju V/Times of India

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