A female Air India flight passenger has reported a fellow man passenger to Delhi police in India for urinating on her in the airline in November 2021 and left without facing any action.
Gatekeepers reports that the woman, who suffered the humiliation was in her seventies.
According to The Indian Express, weeks after the incident, Air India filed a case and recommended that the unruly passenger be placed on the no-fly list.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has sought a report from the airline into the incident that was disclosed after the woman wrote to the Group Chairman of Air India, N Chandrasekaran.
The regulator said, “We shall take action against those found negligent.”
According to the report, on November 26, the drunk passenger allegedly unzipped and urinated on the septuagenarian woman in the business class of an Air India flight from New York to Delhi.
The incident occurred when the lights had been dimmed after a meal.
After urinating, the man allegedly kept exposing himself and did not move until another passenger asked him to return to his seat.
The woman further lodged a complaint to the crew and told them her clothes, shoes, and bag were soaked in urine.
The crew, while claiming there was no other seat, allegedly gave her a set of pyjamas and slippers and told her to return to her seat.
After the flight landed in Delhi, the passenger allegedly left without facing any action for his egregious behaviour.
Disappointed at the airline’s handling of the incident, the septuagenarian decided to write to Chandrasekaran the next day describing what she called the “most traumatic flight I have ever experienced.”
Her letter read, “I am writing to express my deep disappointment regarding the appalling incident that occurred during my business class trip on flight AI102 (commencing in NY, JFK yesterday 26th November at 12.30 pm, and arriving this afternoon in New Delhi Indira Gandhi International Airport at approximately 1.30 pm).
“This has been the most traumatic flight that I have ever experienced. During the course of the flight, shortly after lunch was served and the lights were switched off, I was getting ready to sleep, and another passenger walked to my seat completely inebriated.
“He unzipped his pants, relieved himself, and continued to expose me to his private parts. The passenger sitting next to me asked him to return to his seat. He did not respond immediately, but after a few moments left the area.”
Meanwhile, Air India has now filed a police complaint against the man. Sources said, “Air India constituted an internal committee and recommended to put the male passenger on the ‘no-fly list’. The matter is under a government committee and a decision is awaited.”
