Wednesday, 18 July 2012

Passenger dies during flight


19-year-old youth ‘suffers’ cardiac arrest

Police waived the compulsory autopsy rule in respect of a Dubai resident who died of a heart stroke on an Emirates flight, which made an emergency landing at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in the early hours of Tuesday.

The passenger identified as Ali Ibrahim Parvwish Sangoor Al-Valooshi (19), was on his way to Bangkok from Dubai, for treatment of obesity. The Emirates flight Ek-374 made the emergency landing after he developed health complications. The pilots radioed the RGIA control and sought permission for emergency landing.

A medical team headed by doctors of Apollo clinic at RGIA was on the standby when the aircraft landed at 5.04 a.m. The doctor who went aboard examined Al-Valooshi and declared him dead. He is believed to have suffered a cardiac arrest and breathed his last. Following this declaration, the body was deplaned and his family members terminated their travel plans. The body was shifted to the RGIA clinic and police called in.

Technically, Section 174 of Cr.P.C empowers the police to issue a first information report on any suspicious death and investigate the cause of death by way of examining the body and ask for an autopsy report from a forensic expert. What seemed to have convinced the police to waive the compulsory autopsy rule in this case was a letter given by the young man’s father, Ibrahim declaring that he did not suspect any foul play in the death. The body was embalmed in Osmania General Hospital. The relatives are waiting to take it back to Dubai in the first available flight out of Hyderabad.

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