On Friday January 20 a pilot named as Sergei Golev 44 who was onboard passed away from a heart attack, During a plane UTair Boeing 757 aviating from Bangkok to Novosibirsk in western Siberia, said by a transportation prosecutors.

The pilot who suffered with the heart attack in the cockpit and passed away in spite of all efforts at reawakening.Along with the passengers there was a cardiologist on the flight who made all his efforts and atlast he was unsuccessful to bring back the life of pilot.

By happy chance the UTair Boeing 757 landed carefully in Novosibirsk in spite of pilot Sergei Golev's death.

The captain attempted an emergency landing in the Chinese city of Chengdu, but abandoned it because Golev died before the jet touched down.Senior investigator Anastasia Utochkina told Life News: 'The co-pilot died at 12.25am, Novosibirsk Time (5.25pm GMT), three hours after takeoff.

'The captain made a decision to descend, while the crew called over the tannoy for a female physician who happened to be among the passengers. 

'However, her attempts to revive the man, who was lying on the cockpit floor, failed.'

Airport officials insist that the co-pilot was merely traveling as a passenger and in no way and at no point was in control of the aircraft.Irina Levit, a press officer at Novosibirsk airport: 'The deceased pilot was traveling as an ordinary passenger.

'The aircraft belongs to UTair airline, where Sergei Golev was employed. There was no threat to passengers.'

Golev was a crew member – a reserve pilot, tasked, ironically, with replacing a crew member in case they fall ill.

The Investigation Department of Russia’s transport authority has started an investigation towards the case in an attempt to disclose the come out of the occurrence.