My goodness, discuss misdirected anger…
Airline passenger assaults pilot resulting from delay
Indian aviation is having a very tough few days resulting from fog, with Delhi Airport seeing a whole lot of flight cancelations and delays resulting from climate. Whereas this could clearly result in frustration amongst passengers, one traveler took issues approach too far.
This incident occurred on Sunday, January 14, 2024, on IndiGo flight 6E2175 from Delhi (DEL) to Goa (GOI). The flight was operated by a two-year-old Airbus A320neo with the license plate VT-ISV. Whereas the flight was scheduled to depart at 7:40AM, the flight ended up being delayed by over 10 hours, all the way in which to 6PM, resulting from climate situations. Clearly that’s an extremely irritating delay for all passengers onboard.
By the afternoon, the preliminary crew had timed out resulting from limits on the variety of hours they will work, so a brand new crew took over. One of many new pilots was making an attempt to make an announcement to passengers with an replace about a further delay, at which level a passenger ran up from the again of the cabin and bodily assaulted him.
IndiGo is deciding what to do with the passenger?!
The passenger who punched the pilot ended up being faraway from the plane. The pilot filed a criticism in opposition to him, so the traveler was taken into police custody. It stays to be seen what sort of authorized punishment he’ll face.
An IndiGo official said the next:
“We now have established an inner committee, and the incident has been referred to it. The committee will decide acceptable motion in opposition to the passenger, together with the opportunity of inserting him on the ‘No Fly Listing’ beneath the unruly behaviour class.”
The airline is establishing a committee to determine if it’s acceptable to put this man on the corporate’s no fly record?! Like, is there any query of whether or not this man can be positioned on the no fly record? If this incident doesn’t qualify, then what does?
I suppose that is most likely simply a regular course of that the airline goes via when deciding whether or not to ban somebody or not, however I believe there needs to be no query right here.
Backside line
India is at present seeing fairly some operational disruptions in aviation, which is in fact irritating for passengers. Nevertheless, assaulting a pilot who’s protecting passengers knowledgeable isn’t acceptable, although that’s precisely what one traveler on an IndiGo flight did yesterday. The airline is now contemplating including him to the no fly record, which needs to be the apparent plan of action.
What do you make of this IndiGo state of affairs?
