Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (MS)

Mangaluru, Jan 27: In a bizarre incident that occurred at the Mangaluru International Airport on the outskirts of the city, an Air Ambulance that arrived from overseas to take a lady UK citizen back to the country for further treatment broke down and the patient, who was boarded on the ambulance had to get admitted to the hospital in the city again.

Anne Levish Smith, a British, who had arrived to the city on the cruise ship that docked at the New Mangalore Port Trust, ten days ago, developed severe breathing problems and was admitted to a private hospital in the city. Anne was accompanied by her husband Levish Smith and he intended to take her back to Britain for further treatment. Accordingly, an air ambulance arrived from Britain on the afternoon of Saturday, January 26 to the Mangaluru International Airport.

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Both the husband and wife boarded the air ambulance at around 5 pm in order to go to Britain. However, when the air ambulance was about to take off, it developed some technical snag and Anne and her husband had to be disembarked from the air ambulance and Anne was once again shifted to the private hospital in the city.

It is learnt that a relief flight accompanied by technical personnel to repair the broken down air ambulance will arrive and Anne will be lifted to Britain in that flight. It is said that this is the first instance of an overseas air ambulance breaking down in the Mangaluru International Airport.