Shortly after the flight took off on the morning of October 19, a passenger from the Philippines suddenly suffered a seizure and lost consciousness. The cabin crew immediately requested onboard medical support, while administering first aid and providing oxygen to the 52-year-old passenger.
As the passengers’ condition failed to improve, the captain decided to divert the aircraft to Da Nang International Airport in central Vietnam for profesional medical attention as soon as possible.
Air India flight AI-379, which departed Phuket airport at 9:30 a.m. local time on June 13, made a wide loop over the Andaman Sea before returning for an emergency landing on Phuket Island, according to flight-tracking site Flightradar24.
Vietnam Airlines flight VN307, en route from Tokyo (Narita, Japan) to Ho Chi Minh City on December 27, made an emergency landing at Taoyuan airport in Taipei, Taiwan (China) to provide urgent medical assistance to a passenger.
A Vietnam Airlines flight en route from the UK’s Heathrow airport to Ho Chi Minh City had to make an emergency landing at Dubai airport in the United Arab Emirates to save a French passenger on board who encountered health issues.
A Vietnam Airlines flight en route from Germany to Ho Chi Minh City made an emergency landing at Baku Heydar Aliyev Airport of Azerbaijan on late October 6 to save a German passenger with health problem.
An airplane of Vietnam Airlines made an emergency landing at Da Nang International Airport on July 27 due to a technical warning, the national flag carrier said.
The helicopter squadron carrying Indonesian President Joko Widodo and a government working group to visit flood-hit residents was forced to make an emergency landing in Sukajaya district in West Java province on January 5 due to bad weather.
A flight of Vietnam’s budget carrier Vietjet Air from Vinh city in the central province of Nghe An to Ho Chi Minh City on February 6 changed its schedule for a technical check.
A Viejet Air flight from Incheon, the Republic of Korea, to Ho Chi Minh City made an emergency landing in Taipei (Taiwan, China) on December 24 because of a technical warning.
Seven flights of low-cost airline Vietjet Air were cancelled on April 29 after a plane of this carrier was hit by a bird last night, according to a Vietjet Air spokesperson.
A flight en route from Singapore to Thailand had to return the city state and made emergency landing at Changi Airport on April 5 after a passenger allegedly made a bomb threat on board.
