Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Tuesday informed that IndiGo airlines had "off-rostered" a captain-rank pilot who had allegedly threatened a journalist and her 75-year-old mother on a Chennai-Bengaluru flight.
Puri tweeted he had asked his office to contact IndiGo as soon as he saw a tweet by Supriya Unni Nair, an independent journalist. Puri said IndiGo informed the ministry of civil aviation that the pilot had been taken off the flying roster pending a "full enquiry".
Supriya Unni Nair, a journalist based in Bengaluru, posted a series of tweets early on Tuesday about her ordeal on IndiGo flight 6E 806 from Chennai to Bengaluru. She wrote that the flight's captain, referred to as Jayakrishna "harassed, threatened and prevented me and my 75-year-old diabetic mom from disembarking the flight and threatened to arrest us because we asked for wheelchair assistance".
Nair claimed the incident happened when she walked up to the flight crew to remind them of the need for a wheelchair for her mother.
Nair wrote the stewardess "claimed we don't have access to a wheelchair when it was clearly printed on the ticket". Nair claims when she told the stewardess about this, "the captain came barging out and yells at me for pressing the assistance button and annoying him and his crew". Nair alleged the captain prevented the wheelchair crew from taking her mother out of the aircraft and threatened, "he will ensure we are detained and spend a night in jail".
15/01/20 The Week
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Puri tweeted he had asked his office to contact IndiGo as soon as he saw a tweet by Supriya Unni Nair, an independent journalist. Puri said IndiGo informed the ministry of civil aviation that the pilot had been taken off the flying roster pending a "full enquiry".
Supriya Unni Nair, a journalist based in Bengaluru, posted a series of tweets early on Tuesday about her ordeal on IndiGo flight 6E 806 from Chennai to Bengaluru. She wrote that the flight's captain, referred to as Jayakrishna "harassed, threatened and prevented me and my 75-year-old diabetic mom from disembarking the flight and threatened to arrest us because we asked for wheelchair assistance".
Nair claimed the incident happened when she walked up to the flight crew to remind them of the need for a wheelchair for her mother.
Nair wrote the stewardess "claimed we don't have access to a wheelchair when it was clearly printed on the ticket". Nair claims when she told the stewardess about this, "the captain came barging out and yells at me for pressing the assistance button and annoying him and his crew". Nair alleged the captain prevented the wheelchair crew from taking her mother out of the aircraft and threatened, "he will ensure we are detained and spend a night in jail".
15/01/20 The Week
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