Chennai bound Oman Airlines flight makes emergency landing in Goa

July 28, 2016 02:56 pm | Updated 02:56 pm IST

A Chennai-bound Oman Airlines flight from Muscat made an medical emergency landing at Dabolim international airport in south Goa on Thursday morning as an elderly female passenger died due to cardiac arrest.

According to Dabolim airport police, the flight landed at Dabolim airport at round 7 am and the woman was rushed to Chicalim government hospital. However doctors declared her brought dead. She was accompanied by her relatives

The police gave the name of the deceased as Almaskari Sheikha Juma Rathi.

The flight left for Chennai after an hour, said sources at the Airport Authority of India, Dabolim.

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