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Air India Delhi-US flight returns midway due to the death of a passenger onboard

Air India Delhi-Newark (US) flight returned to the Indira Gandhi International Airport, three hours after it departed, owing to the death of a passenger onboard. 

A team of airport doctors arrived on the plane and after a thorough check of the passenger declared him dead. The passenger was US national and was travelling with his wife.