NAGPUR: A pilot collapsed and died minutes before the flight was to take off at Nagpur Airport. The deceased pilot was about to fly an Indigo flight from Nagpur to Pune. Reports claim that the cause of death was a sudden heart attack.

DGCA sources said that the pilot died who was getting adequate rest. His death was confirmed at Kim's Kingsway Hospital. The pilot had succumbed to death by the time he was brought to the hospital. IndiGo sources said the flight took off at 1:24 pm, 14 minutes after the scheduled time, even though the pilot collapsed.

With the death of the Indigo pilot, the number of pilots who have died on duty this week has risen to three. A pilot of Qatar Airways, who was flying a flight from Delhi to Doha, collapsed during work and died on Wednesday.