On Thursday Air India’s flight AI865 from Delhi to Mumbai was delayed 7 hours prior to finally departing. However while the plane taxied out, it returned to the gate with another issue.
Passengers had had all they could stand, and they couldn’t stands no more. Unfortunately instead of eating spinach they erupted in other, less productive ways. Several went to the cookpit door, threatening to open it with force and demanding the captain show himself.
"If you dont open the door I will break the door". Amazing. Such passengers should be put on no fly list by @DGCAIndia immediately. @airindiain Delhi-Mumbai flight on Boeing 747 returned to bay day before after a snag. Captain wont fly an unsafe plane, passengers must understand! pic.twitter.com/2AHf9IbirC
— Tarun Shukla (@shukla_tarun) January 4, 2020
The confrontation escalated when a passenger grabbed a flight attendant who was attempting to open the aircraft door, back at the gate.
Look at what they are doing with cabin crew. In US they would have been arrested. @MoCA_GoI @DGCAIndia #shameful pic.twitter.com/ASi1CVyL3k
— Tarun Shukla (@shukla_tarun) January 4, 2020
At the behest of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, Air India has commenced an investigation into the passenger behavior. It remains to be seen whether the investigation gets completed before the carrier becomes insolvent.
I’ve seriously wondered WHY people in the U.S. haven’t done this lol…you hear horror stories of people being forced to sit on tarmacs for 4, 6 8 or 10 hours, running out of food/drinks, bathrooms overflowing when they should have just put them back at the gate and let them off the damned plane! It is a shock that it took people this long to revolt! I mean, people here get arrested for really crazy stuff all the time on planes, usually a result of crew members with authority highs but sometimes ludicrous passenger behavior…yet none have ever stormed the doors after hours and hours of delays. Amazing…
Penny +1. We are becoming sheep.
Eat spinach? Seriously? This is one of the most nonsensical posts I’ve ever read.
Joe it’s a reference to the line he quoted from Popeye
I assume the Captain isn’t going to jail or is even just going to be reprimanded for trapping/imprisoning people for 7 hours on what is supposed to be a 2 hour flight (gate to gate). Oh, India!
Poeer to the people that they rebelled. Well done. Enough abuse by airlines.
Penny+2. Yes, I’ve wondered myself why here in America we have become such docile sheep.
I can’t wait to see the AI airlines go bankrupt. They have done it to themselves. The worst airlines on the planet.