An Indian airline flight en route from New Delhi to Jeddah made an emergency landing at Karachi's Jinnah International Airport on Friday night after a passenger fell ill, the Pakistan Airport Authority (PAA) said on Saturday.

A Jeddah-bound IndiGo plane was diverted to the Karachi airport on Saturday due to a medical emergency on board and later flew back to Delhi. Sources in the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) in Pakistan said the aircraft was in the Pakistani airspace when a male passenger fell seriously ill,

Karachi: An IndiGo flight en route to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, was on Saturday forced to make an emergency landing at the Jinnah International Airport in Pakistan's Karachi city following a medical emergency onboard.

An IndiGo plane that was bound for Jeddah got diverted to the Karachi airport and on Saturday because of a medical emergency on board. According to the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) in Pakistan, the aircraft was in Pakistan's airspace when a male passenger fell seriously ill.

"There was a medical emergency on board IndiGo flight 6E 63, operating from Delhi to Jeddah," the airline said in a statement.

IndiGo said the captain diverted the flight to Karachi, where a doctor attended to the passenger upon arrival.

A Jeddah-bound IndiGo plane was diverted to the Karachi airport on Saturday due to a medical emergency on board and later flew back to Delhi.

The aircraft, en route from New Delhi, was in Pakistani airspace when a 55-year-old Indian male passenger fell seriously ill, according to sources from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), as reported by Geo News.

An IndiGo flight en route to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, was on Saturday forced to make an emergency landing at the Jinnah International Airport in Pakistan's Karachi city

The air traffic control allowed the Indigo aircraft to land in Karachi on humanitarian grounds where a medical team has now gone into the aircraft to provide emergency treatment to the passenger.