An ambulance aircraft with a team specialised in treating coma patients, which left Germany to pick up Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, descends before landing at an airport in Omsk, Russia August 21, 2020. Navalny was taken ill with suspected poisoning en route from Tomsk to Moscow on a plane, which made an emergency landing in Omsk. PHOTO: REUTERS
An Indian airline flight en route from New Delhi to Jeddah made an emergency landing at Karachi's Jinnah International Airport on Friday night after a passenger fell ill, the Pakistan Airport Authority (PAA) said on Saturday.
The IndiGo flight, identified as flight number 6E63 and operating an Airbus A321-271NX, landed at 10:54pm under "medical emergency" conditions, according to a PAA statement.
The statement said that the ill passenger was "immediately provided with medicines", following which the person's condition saw improvement.
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