A passenger died after suffering a heart attack on Sunday when the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight from New York to Lahore was about to take off.
According to a PIA spokesman, a passenger identified as Muhammad Rafique suddenly turned sick and started to vomit in PIA flight PK-712.
A doctor present in the plane confirmed his death after which the flight was delayed. The body of the deceased passenger was shifted to a local hospital. The flight took off later after a delay of three and half hours.
Sources said that Muhammad Rafique belonged to Lahore and was suffering from cancer.
