Flier collapses at airport after row

Kolkata: A Bangladeshi national flying from Singapore to Dhaka via Kolkata fell unconscious at the NSCBI Airport after getting into a heated argument with Air India officials over the flight's delay.
Many of the 77 fliers claimed they were informed the last leg to Dhaka would be delayed by 10 hours only after they landed in Kolkata. The normal stopover is just 45 minutes.
The Singapore-Kolkata-Dhaka flight touched down in Kolkata at 11.30 pm on Saturday. "Before we landed, a crew member announced that the flight would take off for Dhaka as scheduled. Only after reaching the transit lounge were we told that the flight was scheduled for the next morning a 10-hour long wait," said Abdur Rashid Mohammad, one of the passengers.
This bit of news was something M A Ashraful Alam (24) found hard to digest. He started arguing with Air India officials that there was no weather trouble over Dhaka and that the last-minute change amounted to nothing but harassment. After arguing for more than an hour, Ashraful suddenly collapsed unconscious on the floor.
The crux of the problem was Air India's decision to put fliers from Singapore on the Mumbai-Dhaka flight on Sunday morning, which led to the delay. Airline officials claimed they decided on Friday afternoon in Mumbai that the Kolkata-Dhaka sector of the two flights from Mumbai and from Singapore would be merged because of turbulent weather over Dhaka.
21/12/09 Times of India

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