Chennai: A 53-year-old passenger who landed in Chennai on Sunday died at the airport. While some officials claim that medical assistance was not renedered to the passenger in time, airport authorities maintain that the passenger was declared dead on arrival.
Jai Sheikh Hussain, a Bangladeshi national, came on the Jet Airways flight from Kolkata accompanied by his brother. The pilot had declared a priority landing owing to the medical emergency and when the flight landed at 6.30pm, Sheikh Hussain was attended by an airport doctor who declared that he was already dead.
Officials at the airport said that Sheikh Hussain could perhaps have been saved had the airport doctor arrived on time which didn’t happen. “We were told that in spite of the pilot’s paging in earlier, the doctor was not available on landing. He arrived only 10 minutes later. In such situations every minute counts,” a police constable said. On their part, the airport authority officials maintained that the doctor was made available and that the passenger was already dead on board. “The mistake could be blamed on the pilot also for he didn’t declare the pan-pan medical emergency as it should have been done. He just sought a priority landing,” an AAI official revealed.
24/05/11 The New Indian Express/IBN Live
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