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Passenger Opens Emergency Door In Chennai-Tiruchirappalli IndiGo Flight, DGCA Orders Probe

The incident happened on an IndiGo flight from Chennai to Tiruchirappalli on December 10

More than a month after a passenger on the Tiruchirappalli-bound IndiGo flight opened the emergency door creating scare among the co-passengers, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (GDCA) ordered a probe into the matter. The incident happened on an IndiGo flight from Chennai to Thiruvananthapuram on December 10.

An earlier version of the story reported that the flight was going from Chennai to Thiruvananthapuram, however, news agency ANI issued a correction saying that the incident occurred on a Tiruchirappalli-bound flight.

"On Dec 10th, a passenger opened the emergency door creating a scare among passengers in IndiGo 6E flight 6E-7339 from Chennai to Trivandrum. The flight took off after pressurisation checks soon after. DGCA has ordered a probe into the matter," DGCA said as quoted by news agency ANI.

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Earlier on January 14, a Madurai-Delhi IndiGo flight was diverted to the Indore airport following a mid-air medical emergency. Officials said that the passenger was brought to a hospital after the flight landed at Indore airport. The doctors at the hospital declared him dead.

As per the information, the passenger — Atul Gupta, was around 60-year-old. He was on board IndiGo Airlines flight 6E-2088 and was found bleeding from the mouth as his condition deteriorated mid-way through the journey.

Due to a medical emergency, the Madurai-Delhi flight was diverted to Indore and it landed there around 5.30 PM. Gupta was sent to a hospital from the airport where he was declared brought dead. Initial information said that the passenger was suffering from some ailments including blood pressure and diabetes.

Officials said that the flight finally took off for Delhi at around 6.40 p.m. According to sources, Gupta was a resident of Noida.

(With IANS inputs)

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