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AHMEDABAD: A flyer travelling with his wife from Singapore to Ahmedabad died mid-air after a heart attack on Saturday evening. Navinchandra Trivedi, 73, suffered a massive cardiac arrest on board a Singapore Airline flight at 6.30 pm.
A major ruckus was created at the airport soon after the flight landed with Trivedi's relatives asking the airline to issue a death certificate.
The flight had taken off from Singapore at around 5 pm. Trivedi, who hails from Jamnagar and retired as a shipping company employee, and his wife Prafula were returning from Australia after meeting their daughter who is settled there.
The airline officials said that at around 6.30 pm, Trivedi complained of chest pain and suffered a stroke. "There was a doctor flying on board who attended Trivedi for a while but he breathed his last at around 7.30 pm. The flight landed at Ahmedabad airport at 10.15 pm," said an official from the airline.
However at the Ahmedabad airport, Trivedi's relatives got into altercation with the airline officials after their demand of death certificate was rejected.
"The customs and immigration department cleared the baggages and formalities soon after the flight landed. At that time, around five to six relatives of Trivedi who were at the airport refused to claim the body and asked for a death certificate from the airlines. Finally at around 2.45 am, the situation was brought under control and the body was sent to Apollo Hospital," said a senior Ahmedabad airport official.
Trivedi's relatives said that he had no cardiac history and were agitated as to why the plane was brought till Ahmedabad and no emergency landing was done as he died an hour after he suffered an attack.
"When we reached the airport, the airline officials said that he was still alive, but when the doctors on board 108 ambulance checked him they said his pulse can't be felt. The airline officials were trying to save themselves from paying the insurance claim and were blatantly lying about his death, so we refused to claim the body till the airline promised to give in writing that he had died on board," said a Trivedi's kin.
"We have still kept the body in the hospital morgue as his son is coming from the US and we are mulling over getting a post mortem done to get to the exact cause of his death," he added.
AHMEDABAD: A flyer travelling with his wife from Singapore to Ahmedabad died mid-air after a heart attack on Saturday evening. Navinchandra Trivedi, 73, suffered a massive cardiac arrest on board a Singapore Airline flight at 6.30 pm.
A major ruckus was created at the airport soon after the flight landed with Trivedi's relatives asking the airline to issue a death certificate.
The flight had taken off from Singapore at around 5 pm. Trivedi, who hails from Jamnagar and retired as a shipping company employee, and his wife Prafula were returning from Australia after meeting their daughter who is settled there.
The airline officials said that at around 6.30 pm, Trivedi complained of chest pain and suffered a stroke. "There was a doctor flying on board who attended Trivedi for a while but he breathed his last at around 7.30 pm. The flight landed at Ahmedabad airport at 10.15 pm," said an official from the airline.
However at the Ahmedabad airport, Trivedi's relatives got into altercation with the airline officials after their demand of death certificate was rejected.
"The customs and immigration department cleared the baggages and formalities soon after the flight landed. At that time, around five to six relatives of Trivedi who were at the airport refused to claim the body and asked for a death certificate from the airlines. Finally at around 2.45 am, the situation was brought under control and the body was sent to Apollo Hospital," said a senior Ahmedabad airport official.
Trivedi's relatives said that he had no cardiac history and were agitated as to why the plane was brought till Ahmedabad and no emergency landing was done as he died an hour after he suffered an attack.
"When we reached the airport, the airline officials said that he was still alive, but when the doctors on board 108 ambulance checked him they said his pulse can't be felt. The airline officials were trying to save themselves from paying the insurance claim and were blatantly lying about his death, so we refused to claim the body till the airline promised to give in writing that he had died on board," said a Trivedi's kin.
"We have still kept the body in the hospital morgue as his son is coming from the US and we are mulling over getting a post mortem done to get to the exact cause of his death," he added.
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