Cardiac Arrest: Another young death: Now, Air India pilot suffers cardiac arrest in office | India News

NEW DELHI: An Air India pilot died on Thursday in the airline’s Gurugram office. The young commander, aged about 37, suffered a cardiac arrest. CPR was given and he was rushed to a nearby private hospital but could not be saved. Comments have been sought from AI and are awaited.
Pilots of Indian carriers, especially the big ones, have been complaining of stress and fatigue which they blame on their “faulty” rostering that involves back to back night shifts and flights being allocated in a way that they are out of home base for days on end.TheDGCA has recently issued a draft of revised flight duty time limitation (FDTL) rules that tries to rein in airlines. Whether the proposed change is enough remains to be seen.
This August an IndiGo had pilot collapsed at a Nagpur Airport boarding gate as he was about to board an aircraft to fly it to Pune. He was administered first aid and rushed to a hospital bit but could not be saved.
Just a day earlier, an ex-SpiceJet captain currently working for Qatar Airways had died while flying as a passenger from Delhi to Doha.
The “incident report” for Thursday’s “medical emergency case” reads: “At about 11.35 am on November 16, 2023, Air India Commander… age about 37 yrs felt by cordio arrest at level 3 Air India office where CPR provided by co-staff and immediately shifted to Medanta medical centre where doctor (gave) CPR and first aid but till now he was in unconscious condition. Later declared died.”