Baku, Azerbaijan, Feb. 4
By Fatih Karimov – Trend:
A passenger plane belonging to Turkey’s national flag carrier, Turkish Airlines, has been forced to make an emergency landing in Iran's south eastern city of Zahedan on Feb. 4.
The Airbus jet heading from Istanbul to Vietnam changed the destination due to critical health conditions of a passenger on board, said Hamid Reza Parsa, an official with the Zahedan Airport, IRNA news agency reported.
The Turkish jet landed at 7:35 local time (GMT +3:30 hours), Parsa said, adding that the sick passenger was transferred to one of the hospitals in Zahedan city to receive medical treatment.
He said that the Turkish Airbus A330-300 aircraft will leave Zahedan to Vietnam after receiving the needed permissions once the patient gets well.