Man Asks Cabin Crew to Open Window to Spit
After the recent incidents of fights and urinating in flight, now there are 2 more incidents in which the passengers had to be deplaned.
Earlier on 23 January, a man named Absar Alam, a resident of Delhi's Jamia Nagar, was travelling to Hyderabad with a family member from Delhi on a SpiceJet flight. During take off, Alam misbehaved with one lady crew member. Further, Alam was offloaded and was taken to the police station by the security staff of Spice jet. SpiceJet then lodged a complaint saying, "On January 23, 2023, SpiceJet aircraft was scheduled to operate Delhi - Hyderabad route. During boarding at Delhi, one passenger behaved in an unruly and inappropriate manner, harassing and causing disturbance to the cabin crew. The crew informed the PIC and security staff of the same. The said passenger and a co-passenger, who were travelling together, were offloaded and handed over to the security team." The crew alleged that the passenger had touched one of the crew members inappropriately, however, the passenger said that it was an accident due to the confined space in the aircraft.
Earlier on 7 January, two foreign nationals were offloaded from a Mumbai-bound Go First flight from Goa after they allegedly misbehaved with a woman cabin crew member.
In a hilarious video, a passenger jokingly asks an IndiGo flight attendant to open the plane’s window so he could spit out gutkha. The video, shared on Instagram by user Govind Sharma, is now viral. The incident is from Indore, when Sharma politely asks the cabin crew in Hindi: “Excuse me, khidki kholdenge (open the window) please, gutka thukna hai (want to spit out tobacco)," prompting the attendant to burst into laughter. The passenger too follows suit along with several others into joining her with laughter.
Taking note of the urinating case, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation imposed a financial penalty of ? 30 lakh on the airline. The aviation regulator also has suspended the license of the Pilot-In-Command of the flight for the period of three months. The Air India Pilot's body is considering legal options against the decision. They said, the pilot acted promptly and maturely and the incident was reported to the authorities at that time only, the member said alleging that there is a lot of "pressure to find a scapegoat in the entire case". Email exchanges have revealed that Air India's senior management, including its chairman and managing director Campbell Wilson, were made aware of the incident two hours after it took place. With contradictory claims and several unofficial accounts now surfacing, what happened on the flight remains shrouded with mystery.
