Kochi: The Kerala high court has registered a suo motu case on an Air India pilot sounding a hijack alert when passengers protested over neglect by the crew after a flight was delayed for several hours and then diverted.
The incident took place on October 19 last year when an Air India Express flight bound for Kochi from Abu Dhabi was diverted to Thiruvananthapuram airport citing bad weather.
Upon landing at Thiruvananthapuram, the passengers (over 150) had declined to deboard the plane in protest against the flight diversion and neglect by the crew. Some of them had also allegedly tried to force their way into the cockpit.
A police case was registered after the pilot, Commander Rupali Waghmare, complained that a passenger even threatened that he would not hesitate to kill her if anything happened to his six-month-old child. Based on the pilot's complaint an FIR was registered against six passengers.
26/10/13 Times of India
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The incident took place on October 19 last year when an Air India Express flight bound for Kochi from Abu Dhabi was diverted to Thiruvananthapuram airport citing bad weather.
Upon landing at Thiruvananthapuram, the passengers (over 150) had declined to deboard the plane in protest against the flight diversion and neglect by the crew. Some of them had also allegedly tried to force their way into the cockpit.
A police case was registered after the pilot, Commander Rupali Waghmare, complained that a passenger even threatened that he would not hesitate to kill her if anything happened to his six-month-old child. Based on the pilot's complaint an FIR was registered against six passengers.
26/10/13 Times of India
