Emergency landing at Ahmedabad SVPI

An Air Arabia flight on Thursday had to make an emergency landing at the city airport after a passenger on board complained of chest pain. The flight, on its way from Sharjah to Chittagong, was forced to make the emergency landing when passenger identified as Kafilludin Sheikh Mohammed, 38, complained of severe chest pain.

Air Traffic Control at SVPI airport, at around 5 pm Thursday, received request from the Air Arabia plane for emergency landing. Meanwhile, airport officials made all arrangements for the passenger to be immediately transferred to a hospital.

"An ambulance of Apollo Hospital was on standby to handle the medical emergency. The patient was given preliminary treatment and was then immediately transferred to the hospital," said an airport official. Doctors in Apollo have admitted him for further treatment, informed the official.

In all, the flight had 157 passengers.

An airport source said other passengers of the flight were not de-planed. It was later cleared for take-off after 10.30 in the night.