Mumbai: A Jet Airways flight from Mumbai to Chandigarh returned fromthe runway on Monday morning after one of the passengers, a senior citizen,suffered a heart attack.
Flight 9W 2057 proceeded to runway 09-27 for take-off at11am. "The flight was supposed to leave at 10.10am butgot delayed because it could not get a slot," he said. "67-yr-old SantSingh fainted when the plane was taxiing towards the runway," a passenger said.
While the crew attended to Singh, the captain cancelled thetake-off and proceeded to bay number 3. A doctor of Mumbai InternationalAirport Limited (MIAL) reached the aircraft at 11.09am and Singh was taken fortreatment.
Though Singh was off-loaded, the flight could not take off."As the aircraft had missed its allotted slot, it had to wait for itsturn," an airport official said.
At 12.25pm, the flight was given clearance. The spokespersonfor Jet Airways said the passenger was unwell and had to be off-loaded fortreatment.