Indian airline makes emergency landing in Karachi
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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.