Flight aborted as 49-year-old dies on board

A 49-year-old passenger died on board a Jet Airways Mumbai-Dubai flight on Wednesday morning. The flight was still on the taxiway when the passenger complained of chest pain and uneasiness.

AB Rahiman Abdullah, 49, and his friend boarded flight 9W 542, which was to depart from Mumbai at 8:40am. “The plane was just pushed back from the bay and was on the taxiway when the passenger complained of chest pain,” a senior Jet official said. “The captain of the flight decided to immediately return to the bay.”

Doctors at the airport were kept on standby. “When the plane reached the bay, the doctors went on board to check on him. But he was already dead,” the official said.

Abdullah’s body was handed over to the Sahar police station, which in turn sent it to Cooper Hospital for a post-mortem examination. “We are still in the process of registering a case and investigating the cause of death,” said an officer from the Sahar police station.
The flight finally took off at 10:45am from Mumbai airport.