3 inebriated Mangalore Air India Express passengers handed over to Dubai security
TOI
Mangalore, 17 Aug 2012: Three inebriated passengers onboard the Air India Express 813 were handed over to Dubai security officials by the crew after they badly misbehaved with the crew and the passengers on Friday.
The passengers, all from Mangalore, had boarded the flight at Bajpe airport which departed for Dubai at 10.45 pm on Thursday.
The passengers, identified as Praveen Castelino, Ganadhar Bhavani and A K Amith Kumar, started misbehaving with the female cabin crew and later started hurling abuses, when passengers intervened. Sources said the drama unfolded an hour before the flight was to land at Dubai. They started demanding more liquor with the female cabin crew using abusive language. At one point of time, the passengers told the three to shut up as there were infants and children on the aircraft and also they wanted to get some sleep. But they continued their bawdy behaviour,’’ the source said.
The unruly passengers also did not cooperate with the cabin crew during landing trying to move around unbuckling their seatbelts. The source said one of them was using electronic equipment and also a camcorder to video shoot the episode, in spite of being requested by the crew not to.
The source added: Their papers were in order, hence will not be deported. They may let off with punitive action according to Dubai law.
This is not the first time there have been such incidents on the AIE. A couple of years back, Ashraf from Puttur threatened to open the entrance door of flight. Ashraf had also slapped the only male in flight crew on board.
Two years back, the Dubai- bound AIE flight at 9.30 pm was forced to land at Mumbai Airport due to the alleged unruly behaviour of two passengers, who posed security threat to the flight. The passengers Prasad Shetty and Shanawaz Khan, started demanding alcohol within a few minutes of the flight taking off from Mangalore, and even when the belt-fastening signal was still on. When their behaviour turned for the worse the captain decided to the flight at Mumbai.
Comments on this Article | |
Charles D Mello, Pangala | Sun, August-19-2012, 12:37 |
In long distance aircraft even if the customer is right, he has to keep the inconvenience of other passengers in mind before acting rude. Some people think drinking and demanding more alcohol is their right..!!??? |