RIYADH, 3 November 2007 — An Indian worker on a Saudi Arabian Airlines flight from Jeddah to Mumbai via Riyadh died of suspected heart attack yesterday.
According to airport authorities, the 45-year-old man developed chest pain during the flight and was pronounced dead at the King Khaled International Airport when the aircraft made a scheduled landing here.
The flight, which left King Abdul Aziz Airport in Jeddah at 2 a.m. yesterday, reached Riyadh 90 minutes after take-off. The dead man was identified as Abdullah Mohideen, a gas station worker in Yanbu. Mohideen complained of chest pain as soon as the plane was airborne. Airport police are making further inquiries into the death.
Mohideen, a father of two daughters and a son from the southern Indian state of Kerala, was traveling to India on holiday, said his sponsor.
Police, who took custody of the deceased’s baggage, handed over the body to the central morgue at the Riyadh Medical Complex in Sumaisi. Mohideen’s brother, Muhammad, who is working in Shaqra, 170 km from the capital, was at the morgue taking care of legal formalities.
