A New Delhi-bound flight made an emergency landing in Varanasi on Friday after a Thai national died on board after suffering a massive heart attack, authorities said here.
The Spice Jet flight took off from Bangkok at 7.40 a.m. with 189 passengers including a 22-member Thai group of tourists of which the deceased, identified as Atabot Thngcusorn (53), was a member.
The authorities at the Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport here were informed by the plane crew that Atabot suffered a heart attack and they would have to make an emergency landing.
Soon after the plane landed the passenger was rushed to a nearby medical facility where he was pronounced dead.