The incident happened on PIA PK-742 which had around 225 passengers on board.
A woman, who was among the three, died as a result. The other two passengers, a wife and her husband, survived the ordeal.
Although the flight made an emergency landing at Karachi’s Jinnah Terminal airport, the woman could not be saved.
An ambulance of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), doctors and other staff members arrived on the tarmac to shift the other two ailing passengers to a medical facility.
The deceased was identified as Swabi-bound Mahala Bibi who died due to her ailment.According to airport officials, Khalid Pervez was traveling to Sialkot from London by a PIA flight PK/778 on Wednesday when he suffered a massive heart attack and died on the spot.
Later, the airport officials handed over the body to his grieved family after necessary formalities.Jehlum was the native city of the deceased.
