Diabetic passenger dies at Mumbai airport

The CSIA medical team was called and cardiopulmonary resuscitation started. The doctors also used the automated external defibrillator (AED) installed in the coach,but the passenger did not respond, said a Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL) spokesperson.

An AED is used to administer electric shocks to the heart of a person suffering a cardiac arrest. Every inter-terminal coach at CSIA has an AED. The airport has 43 such devices.

Sahar police said the cause of the death would be ascertained after post-mortem.

Separately,a Thailand-Sharjah flight made emergency landing at CSIA Tuesday morning after a passenger,Nystrom Bror Gosta,suffered convulsions on board.

The Viking Air flight VKG 2824 landed at CSIA at 11.20 am and the passenger was treated by a waiting medial team.

A fellow passenger,reportedly a nurse,attended to him while on board. On-ground medical support was made available as soon as the aircraft touched Mumbai. The airport doctor advised immediate hospitalisation, an MIAL spokesperson said.

Gosta of Sweden was accompanied by wife Nystrom Anna Kirstine.

As advised by his insurance company and the captain of the flight,he was referred to Fortis Hospital,Mulund.