India, Aug. 2 -- A 32-year-old man from Assam's Cachar district has gone missing after suffering a mid air panic attack and an assault by a fellow passenger on board an IndiGo flight from Mumbai to Kolkata.

His family members told HT on Friday evening that he was supposed to reach Silchar from Kolkata on a connecting flight, but he never arrived and hasn't contacted them since.

The missing passenger, identified as Hussain Ahmed Majumdar, hails from Lathimara village in Cachar. He was travelling from Mumbai to Silchar via Kolkata on IndiGo Flight 6E-2387 on Thursday, July 31.

According to his family, Hussain works in a hotel in Mumbai and has been living there for the past seven years.

"This was probably his fifth journey from Mumbai t...