{"id":33408,"date":"2024-02-16T15:19:25","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T20:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/?p=33408"},"modified":"2024-02-26T12:20:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T17:20:29","slug":"special-assistance-service-for-senior-citizens-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/special-assistance-service-for-senior-citizens-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly Indian-origin Couple Got Separated after Reaching Mumbai. However, Mishap could have been Averted"},"content":{"rendered":"
They bade a happy goodbye to their family in the US and left for a vacation in India, not knowing that it was their last flight together<\/strong>. On February 12, the couple got separated in an unfortunate incident after a long flight from New York to Mumbai. The 80-year-old Indian American man collapsed and died leaving his 76-year-old wife alone, on arrival at Mumbai International Airport. Their decades-long togetherness came to an end.<\/p>\n The post-arrival wheelchair assistance was pre-booked for the elderly couple, according to reports. But they got only one wheelchair due to a shortage of the service at Mumbai Airport. He followed his wife on the wheelchair and walked nearly 1.5km to the immigration counter. All of a sudden, he sank to the floor due to a heart attack during the immigration process. He was immediately taken to a nearby hospital where he was declared dead to the utter dismay of his spouse and the airline officials.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n