<p>New Delhi: A senior Air India pilot died on Thursday morning after showing signs of discomfort during a training session at the Delhi airport, according to officials.</p><p>The pilot appears to have suffered a cardiac arrest, they added.</p><p>The officials said that Himmanil Kumar, who was in his 30s, was at a training session at the operations department of Air India at Terminal 3 of the airport. Suddenly, he started showing signs of discomfort and colleagues tried to assist him. He was taken to a hospital at the airport but passed away despite efforts to revive him, the officials said.</p><p>Kumar, a senior commander, was undergoing conversion training whereby pilots flying narrow body aircraft are trained to operate wide-body planes.</p>.Airlines operating in India need to implement Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act provisions: Ruling.<p>He started training from October 3 for transition to operating Boeing 777 aircraft from A320 aircraft, they added.</p><p>One of the officials said the airline is extending all possible assistance to the family and that the father of the deceased was a senior commander at the airline.</p><p>A regulatory official in the know said Kumar underwent his medicals on August 23 and was declared fit.</p><p>There is no fatigue-related issue with respect to flying duties and after leaves, Kumar resumed training on Thursday.</p><p>All his past medical assessments were fine with no detected underlying medical conditions, the official added.</p><p>There was no immediate statement from Air India.</p>
<p>New Delhi: A senior Air India pilot died on Thursday morning after showing signs of discomfort during a training session at the Delhi airport, according to officials.</p><p>The pilot appears to have suffered a cardiac arrest, they added.</p><p>The officials said that Himmanil Kumar, who was in his 30s, was at a training session at the operations department of Air India at Terminal 3 of the airport. Suddenly, he started showing signs of discomfort and colleagues tried to assist him. He was taken to a hospital at the airport but passed away despite efforts to revive him, the officials said.</p><p>Kumar, a senior commander, was undergoing conversion training whereby pilots flying narrow body aircraft are trained to operate wide-body planes.</p>.Airlines operating in India need to implement Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act provisions: Ruling.<p>He started training from October 3 for transition to operating Boeing 777 aircraft from A320 aircraft, they added.</p><p>One of the officials said the airline is extending all possible assistance to the family and that the father of the deceased was a senior commander at the airline.</p><p>A regulatory official in the know said Kumar underwent his medicals on August 23 and was declared fit.</p><p>There is no fatigue-related issue with respect to flying duties and after leaves, Kumar resumed training on Thursday.</p><p>All his past medical assessments were fine with no detected underlying medical conditions, the official added.</p><p>There was no immediate statement from Air India.</p>