Mangaluru: British citizen Ann Maud Lewis Smith who was due to be airlifted back home in an air ambulance on Saturday, finally departed from Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) on Monday.
Efforts to airlift Ann, who had arrived in this coastal city on board a cruise ship 10 days ago and subsequently, fell sick, failed when the air ambulance that reached MIA hit a technical snag minutes before take-off on Saturday.
The alternative air ambulance arranged by Air India Sats reached MIA from Sharjah at 12.30am on Monday and took off at 1.45am, V V Rao, airport director, MIA said, adding as per the flight plan filed, the relief aircraft was scheduled to stop at Karachi for refuelling. The original air ambulance that was summoned to take Ann and her husband developed technical snag minutes before it was due to take off on Saturday and a replacement aircraft had to be called in.
29/01/18 TImes of India
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Efforts to airlift Ann, who had arrived in this coastal city on board a cruise ship 10 days ago and subsequently, fell sick, failed when the air ambulance that reached MIA hit a technical snag minutes before take-off on Saturday.
The alternative air ambulance arranged by Air India Sats reached MIA from Sharjah at 12.30am on Monday and took off at 1.45am, V V Rao, airport director, MIA said, adding as per the flight plan filed, the relief aircraft was scheduled to stop at Karachi for refuelling. The original air ambulance that was summoned to take Ann and her husband developed technical snag minutes before it was due to take off on Saturday and a replacement aircraft had to be called in.
29/01/18 TImes of India
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