A wheel chair-bound Kingfisher passenger, who was accused by an air-hostess of clicking her pictures on board a Delhi-Mumbai flight on February 23, has filed a complaint against her with the airline.
The passenger’s iphone was checked at the Mumbai airport by the airline’s security and no pictures of the crew member or any other images of the aircraft’s interiors were found on it.
A Kingfisher Airline spokesman on Monday said the air-hostess’s conduct in under investigation. “If she is found guilty, appropriate action will be taken against her,” said Prakash Mirpuri, vice-president, corporate communications, Kingfisher Airlines.
Anand P Nair, principal trustee of Shree Ramanugrah Trust, had put his iphone on ‘airplane mode’ just before the take-off and was drafting some e-mail replies which he wanted to send on landing in Mumbai.
When an iphone is put on ‘airline mode’, its wireless features get disabled, but its camera and music capabilities remain active.
A few minutes into the flight, a fight attendant asked Nair to switch off his phone. Nair told her the phone was on ‘air-plane mode’ and would, thus, not interfere with the plane’s communication devices.
While the air-hostess, claims Nair, first appeared satisfied with his explanation, she came came back a little while later and asked him again to switch off the phone.
This time, Nair pointed to the ‘on airplane mode’ icon on his phone. The air-hostess, however, insisted that he switch off the phone and alleged that she had seen him clicking her pictures.
“I was shocked. I told her I would record what she was saying. To this, she said I could do whatever I wished to and that she would report me to the airline’s security at Mumbai airport,” said Nair, talking to Mumbai Mirror over the phone from his residence on Monday.
As the plane landed, the air-hostess asked him to remain seated while other passengers deplaned.
At the airport, Kingfisher security personnel took Nair aside and told him they would have to check his phone. “When I asked them what I was being detained for, they told me an airline crew had reported that I was clicking her pictures.
I have these conversations with the security staff and the airhostess recorded and made the security listen to them,” Nair said.
The security found nothing on Nair’s phone and let him go. “As I was being questioned, fellow passengers surrounded me. It was so embarassing,” said Nair.
01/03/11 Mumbai Mirror
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