How An IIT Student Helped Save A Man’s Life On A Flight, With The Spring From An Ordinary Pen

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It may seem a bit difficult to understand, but recently an engineer saved a man’s life on a flight during a medical emergency!

A student from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur says that the engineering knowledge he acquired in college helped him save the life of a man who suffered diabetes-related complications mid-air.Karttikeya Mangalam, a final year BTech student studying electrical engineering, recollected the incident in an article for IIT-Kanpur’s in-house magazine. The21-year-old was flying to New Delhi from Geneva via Moscow in February when he realised a man seated two rows behind him needed medical help.