Software eng dies on b’day in front of dad at Chennai Airport

CHENNAI: In a tragic incident, a 30-year-old software engineer, who arrived from Australia enroute Singapore, died of massive heart attack at the Anna International Airport here in the early hours of today even as his father, who came to greet him on his birthday, watched his son swooning at the visitor’s lounge. Vishnu (30), a native of Thennoor in Tiruchirapalli District, was waiting to collect his baggage after completing immigration and customs formalities, when he suddenly swooned with blood oozing out from his mouth, right in front of his father who was waiting at the visitor’s lounge, airport sources said. Though taken aback with the sudden development, a medical team examined and declared he died of sudden massive heart attack. His father Ilangovan, an Industrialist, who arrived from Tiruchirapalli to take home the ‘birthday boy,’ stood in disbelief as Doctors and Airport authorities failed to fi nd words to console him. The sad part of the incident was Vishnu, who turned 30yesterday, had asked his father to come down to the Airport stating he wanted get birthday wishes from him before the stroke of midnight, on his arrival. However, he could not get his ‘last’ wishes fulfi lled as the Singapore Airlines fl ight, which was scheduled to land at 2200 hrs last night, aborted its landing and fl ew to Bangalore as a Cargo fl ight got stuck at the runway. Expecting to meet his son at 2200 hrs, Ilangovan came to the visitor’s lounge around 2130 hrs but learnt the fl ight had been diverted to Bangalore as the Chennai- Russia Cargo Flight got stranded on the runway. As the Singapore Airlines fl ight belonged to the Airbus class and required full runway for landing, it was diverted to Bangalore after being made to hover around the city for about 30 minutes.