Two Indian Pilots Die In 2 Days, 1 At Airport, Another On Flight
A Qatar Airways pilot suffered a cardiac arrest aboard a Delhi-Doha flight.
New Delhi:
India has seen the deaths of two pilots in two days. While an IndiGo captain fell unconscious at a boarding gate in Nagpur today, a Qatar Airways pilot suffered a heart attack onboard a flight yesterday.
The IndiGo captain was supposed to operate a flight from Nagpur to Pune and had reached the boarding gate when he lost consciousness. He was taken to a hospital where he was declared dead. Sources said he had finished flying three sectors and had completed a two-hour halt.
The Qatar Airways pilot was travelling in the passenger cabin of a Delhi-Doha flight as an additional crew member when he suffered a cardiac arrest and died. He had earlier worked with SpiceJet, Alliance Air and Sahara.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has confirmed the deaths.
The incidents come days after a pilot collapsed in the bathroom of a commercial flight from Miami to Chile with 271 passengers on board. An emergency landing was carried out in Panama on Sunday night and Captain Ivan Andaur was declared dead by medical experts at the airport.
