Israeli The media has claimed that on Wednesday night Karachi An international flight made an emergency landing in which Israeli citizens were also present, while the Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority expressed ignorance of the presence of Israelis, saying that no citizens had disembarked. Organizations managing the airports of Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Spokesperson Saifullah Khan confirmed the emergency landing of the flydubai flight on medical grounds.
However, he expressed ignorance regarding the presence of Israeli passengers in the flight.
According to the spokesperson of Civil Aviation, the Fly Dubai flight was traveling from Dubai (United Arab Emirates) to Bangkok (Thailand) to Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, when a female passenger on the plane fell ill during the flight over the Arabian Sea near Karachi. It suddenly went bad.
He said that Air Traffic Control Karachi allowed the plane to make an emergency landing following the pilot contacted.
According to the spokesman, following the passenger plane landed at Karachi Airport, the Civil Aviation Authority team examined the female passenger, but by that time she had died.
According to doctors, the Sri Lankan passenger died of cardiac arrest.
The federal health officer posted at the airport issued the death certificate of the female passenger.
The dead body of the female passenger was taken off the flydubai flight and later flown from Karachi to Colombo by another aircraft.
CAA spokesperson Saifullah Khan was asked regarding the presence of an Israeli passenger in the plane, and he said that he did not know whether there were Israeli passengers in the plane or not.
Israeli media
An Israeli government statement released on Israeli media said that “on the plane that made the emergency landing were two Israeli citizens, Rotim Yehud and Itai Roshtin Sora, who had been discharged from reserve duty and were on their way to Sri Lanka on vacation.”
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According to the statement, Israel considers Pakistan a high-risk country and prohibits its citizens from entering Pakistan’s borders.
In its statement, the Israeli Foreign Ministry, referring to the (Israeli) passengers on board the plane that landed at Karachi Airport, wrote: ‘As long as we were on the plane, there was no reason to fear. They showed no enmity towards us. Medical teams were the first to arrive on the plane. We don’t know if the Pakistanis knew that we were Israelis. We sat in silence and felt nothing different.’
Pakistani Foreign Office
Mumtaz Zahra Baloch, Spokesperson of Pakistan’s Foreign Office in Islamabad, told Independent Urdu Correspondent Quratul Ain Shirazi on Thursday night that FlyDubai flight number 569 operating between Dubai and Colombo was diverted to Karachi’s Jinnah International due to a medical emergency. The airport was diverted and the flight landed at 11 pm last night.
According to the spokesman, a Sri Lankan female citizen on board the flight was examined by a medical team, following which the body was taken off the plane declaring the passenger dead, while no other passenger got off the plane. After that, the plane departed from Pakistan.
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2024-07-12 14:36:24