A father-son meet in Melbourne ended in tragedy when the father died midair while he was returning back home.
A father-son meet in Melbourne ended in tragedy when the father died midair while he was returning back home to Jamnagar, Gujarat. Seventy-three-year-old Navin Chandra Trivedi's body arrived late on Saturday night at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad. And what followed after the arrival was absolute chaos and all for a death certificate!
A resident of Jamnagar, Trivedi was on his way back from Australia where he had gone to meet his son. On Saturday, he had landed at Changi Airport in Singapore where he changed his flight to Ahmedabad in a Singapore Airlines flight.
According to airport officials at 6:30 pm Trivedi suffered cardiac arrest midair. Officials claimed that since the plane was flying over the vast sea route the pilots couldn't make an emergency landing in any of the nearby airports for nearly an hour. In the meantime, Trivedi's condition worsened and he died midair. There was a doctor onboard, one Jignesh Raval, who treated Trivedi, but couldn't save his life.
As the flight landed at 10:15 pm, relatives of the deceased thronged the airport. They were angry with the airline officials and demanded a death certificate from the authorities. However, the airline officials refused to give any such certificate by saying they do not have any system for this.
“For nearly four hours, the relatives of the deceased and airline officials kept arguing over the death certificate. There was a total chaos at the international terminal for more than four hours as arguments went on while the body kept lying at the airport. Because of the ruckus a flight for Singapore also got delayed for nearly two hours for which dozens of passengers were stranded,” an airport official said.
Officials said deceased Trivedi’s wife Prafulla was also accompanying him, but even she too was left unattended on a wheelchair at the airport during the commotion. An Apollo hospital doctor deputed at the airport, too refused to declare in writing that the passenger was dead. This act infuriated the deceased’s kin so much so that they too refused to take the body.
Sources said that after hours of heated argument, the body was finally sent to Apollo Hospital and a death certificate was issued later on.
Sources said no police complaint was lodged as the incident turned out to be a natural death.
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