An Army doctor reportedly saved the life of a critically ill 27-year-old man during a flight from Pune to Chandigarh by resuscitating him. According to the agency reports, the officer gave emergency medicines to the man and requested an emergency landing in Mumbai.

Major Simrat Rajdeep Singh, a medical officer with the Western Command Hospital, Chandimandir (Haryana), told PTI that while he was travelling from Pune to Chandigarh by an Indigo flight on Monday. A co-passenger, who boarded in Goa, started experiencing respiratory distress mid-air at an altitude of 39,000 feet, Singh told PTI.