IndiGo flight makes emergency landing at Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar after woman dies onboard

An IndiGo Airlines flight made an emergency landing at the airport in Maharashtra’s Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar after an 89-year-old woman died onboard, an airport official said on Monday (April 7, 2025).

The Mumbai-Varanasi flight made an emergency landing at the Chikalthana Airport on Sunday night at around 10 p.m., he said.

The official said Sushila Devi, a native of Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh, boarded the flight from Mumbai and started feeling unwell mid-air.