Senior citizen dies on board AI flight from NY

Mumbai: A senior citizen died on board Air India's New York-Mumbai non-stop flight on May 3. The passenger was a heart patient.
Venkat Subba Rao, 62, and his wife B Subba Rao, 54, boarded AI 140 from New York at 9.10pm on Sunday night. Rao, a retired State Bank of India employee from Chennai, was returning after visiting his son in New Jersey and relatives in California.
"Around midnight, my husband complained of breathlessness and I requested the crew to help us," B Subba Rao said in her statement to the Sahar police. "A doctor on board attended to him but declared him dead at 1.30am. He was a heart patient." she said.
The flight landed at the Mumbai airport on Monday night. "We sent the body for post-mortem. The report revleaed that he had died of a heart attack. The body has been handed over to his wife," said Dilip Patil, senior inspector of Sahar police station.
AI officials said such deaths can be prevented if passengers declare their medical status before taking a flight, especially before a long journey.
06/05/09 Naveeta Singh/Daily News & Analysis

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