Various stake holders in Indian aviation are considering the creation of an Unfit-to-fly registry aimed at eliminating unruly passenger behaviour. The move has been prompted by repeated instances of disorderly conduct by passengers on flights.
The latest such incident occurred on Saturday on a Delhi-Mumbai Jet Airways flight, when a passenger threw away his food tray and then threatened the crew by saying that he had taken control of the aircraft by remote means and would crash it. As his alarmed co-passengers watched, the man began walking towards the cockpit. The flyer was eventually pinned down, sedated and handed over to security staff at the Mumbai airport. It turned out that he was reportedly mentally unstable, and was released after his family apologised for his behaviour. This was the fourth case of passengers both scaring and inconveniencing co-passengers on commercial airlines in the country in the past year. The incident could have turned ugly, said Amber Dubey, who heads aerospace and defence at KPMG in India, and who was on Saturday’s Jet Airways flight. “The crew and passengers didn’t panic and did a good job of controlling the situation. With air traffic growing by leaps and bounds, such instances are likely to recur. We need to build an `unfit to fly’ registry with biometric details of high-risk passengers.”
07/02/17 Aditya Anand/Mumbai Mirror
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The latest such incident occurred on Saturday on a Delhi-Mumbai Jet Airways flight, when a passenger threw away his food tray and then threatened the crew by saying that he had taken control of the aircraft by remote means and would crash it. As his alarmed co-passengers watched, the man began walking towards the cockpit. The flyer was eventually pinned down, sedated and handed over to security staff at the Mumbai airport. It turned out that he was reportedly mentally unstable, and was released after his family apologised for his behaviour. This was the fourth case of passengers both scaring and inconveniencing co-passengers on commercial airlines in the country in the past year. The incident could have turned ugly, said Amber Dubey, who heads aerospace and defence at KPMG in India, and who was on Saturday’s Jet Airways flight. “The crew and passengers didn’t panic and did a good job of controlling the situation. With air traffic growing by leaps and bounds, such instances are likely to recur. We need to build an `unfit to fly’ registry with biometric details of high-risk passengers.”
07/02/17 Aditya Anand/Mumbai Mirror
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