Mangaluru: British citizen Ann Maud Lewis Smith who was due to be airlifted back home in an air ambulance on Saturday is now set to depart from Mangalore International Airport in the early hours of Monday. Efforts to airlift Ann, who had arrived in this coastal city on board a cruise ship 10 days back and subsequently fell sick, failed when the air ambulance that reached MIA hit a technical snag minutes before take-off on Saturday.
V V Rao, airport director, MIA, said the air ambulance flew into MIA from Turkey via Karachi on Saturday to take Ann and her husband Lewis Smith back home to the United Kingdom. With the air ambulance with Ann and her husband on board developing a technical snag around 5pm, the couple had to be offloaded and Ann sent back to the private hospital in the city where she has been undergoing treatment for severe breathing problems.
“We have made arrangements for an air ambulance to park on the apron of MIA in order to get the relief plane come in with supplies to set right the technical snag, and this may take a couple of days,” Rao said. The alternative air ambulance arranged by Air India Sats is scheduled to reach MIA from Sharjah at 12.30am on Sunday and take off an hour later, Rao said, adding as per the flight plan, it is scheduled to stop at Karachi for refuelling.
28/01/19 Times of India
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V V Rao, airport director, MIA, said the air ambulance flew into MIA from Turkey via Karachi on Saturday to take Ann and her husband Lewis Smith back home to the United Kingdom. With the air ambulance with Ann and her husband on board developing a technical snag around 5pm, the couple had to be offloaded and Ann sent back to the private hospital in the city where she has been undergoing treatment for severe breathing problems.
“We have made arrangements for an air ambulance to park on the apron of MIA in order to get the relief plane come in with supplies to set right the technical snag, and this may take a couple of days,” Rao said. The alternative air ambulance arranged by Air India Sats is scheduled to reach MIA from Sharjah at 12.30am on Sunday and take off an hour later, Rao said, adding as per the flight plan, it is scheduled to stop at Karachi for refuelling.
28/01/19 Times of India
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