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The case was registered under sections 323, 506 and 336 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and 22, 23 and 25 of the Aircraft Rules at the IGI Police Station in Delhi. (pti file)
Ten passengers rushed to help the crew restrain the suspects, who also tried to hit some of them
A Nepalese national has been booked for allegedly abusing Air India crew members and breaking the toilet door on the plane. The case was registered by Delhi Police on the complaint of cabin supervisor Aditya Kumar.
According to the flight information, one of the passengers, who was on the Air India flight that took off from Toronto, changed his seat and then hurled abuse at the crew members in the economy class.
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The passenger, Mahesh Singh Pandit, only stopped after the pilot in charge gave him a verbal warning. However, Singh was caught with a cigarette lighter inside the restroom after the smoke alarm went off, years mentioned.
“When I opened the door to the passenger he pushed me back and ran to his 26F seat. When I tried to stop him he pushed me and assaulted me too. Later he broke the door of the LAV 3F-RC. Then I immediately reported to the captain and as instructed by the captain with the help of the cabin crew Puneet Sharma and four other passengers, we tried to restrain him according to standard operating procedures.”
Ten passengers rushed to help the crew restrain the suspects, who also tried to hit some of them, the FIR added.
The case was registered under sections 323, 506 and 336 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and 22, 23 and 25 of the Aircraft Rules at the IGI Police Station in Delhi.
Many cases of unruly behavior by passengers inside Air India flights have been reported in the past few months.
On June 24, a man reportedly defecated and urinated inside an Indian Airlines flight. He was arrested later.
In November last year, a drunk man reportedly urinated on a woman traveling on an Air India flight from New York to Delhi. Ten days later, another incident was reported of a “drunk” passenger allegedly “urinating” on a passenger’s blanket on the Air India Paris-New Delhi flight.
The latest data from the International Air Transport Association (IATA) showed that airlines around the world experienced more rowdy passengers in 2022 than in the previous year.
According to the report, there was one incident reported for every 568 flights in 2022, compared to one for every 835 flights in 2021.
Non-compliance with flight rules, verbal abuse and intoxication ranked high in the type of bad behavior such fliers showed around the world last year. Instances of physical assault were rare but showed an alarming 61% increase over 2021 with one such incident reported every 17,200 flights.
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