“The passenger was 72-year-old UK citizen. After emergency landing, it was founded that he had died of heart failure”, Kasamanski said.
His relatives asked Azerbaijani relevant authorities to hold the body in Baku and works are underway to send the body to the UK.
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Baku. Vusal Nabiyev - APA-Economics. A plane on London-Mumbai flight has made an emergency landing at Heydar Aliyev International Airport as one of the passengers felt bad and needed medical assistance.
The Air India’s AI 130 plan had 229 passengers. It departed from London yesterday at 7:00 p.m and was planned to land at Mumbai’s Chatrapati airport at 4:00 a.m.
Due to emergency landing, the plane is expected to arrive in Mumbai at 1:00 p.m. today.