An inebriated passenger allegedly urinated on a male co-passenger on an American Airlines flight from New York to New Delhi. Sources gave this information on Sunday.
The incident took place in flight number AA292 which took off from New York at 9.16 pm on Friday and landed at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport here at 10.12 am on Saturday.
A source at the airport said, “The accused is a student of an American university. He was in an inebriated state and urinated on his clothes in his sleep, which wet the passenger sitting next to him. The passenger then complained to the crew.
He said that the victim passenger did not want to report the matter to the police as the accused student had apologized and complaining could jeopardize his career. However, the airline took a serious note of it and reported the matter to the Air Traffic Control (ATC) at IGI (Indira Gandhi International) airport. After the crew came to know about the incident, they informed the pilot who informed ATC about the matter.
The ATC informed the Central Industrial Security Force personnel who handed over the accused passenger to the Delhi Police. Another source at the airport told PTI, “The airline’s own security team along with the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) swung into action after learning about the incident.” The accused was immediately taken into custody after alighting from the aircraft.
Police is recording the statements of the people concerned.” According to the Civil Aviation Rules, if a passenger is found guilty of unruly behaviour, he can be banned from flying for a specified period.
This is the second incident of a drunken passenger urinating on a co-traveller in the last few months. A similar incident took place on Air India’s New York-Delhi flight on November 26 in which a passenger named Shankar Mishra allegedly urinated on an elderly woman in an inebriated condition.
The incident came to light after about a month through a media report following which an FIR was registered and Mishra was arrested. He was released on bail after being in jail for about a month.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation had imposed a fine of Rs 30 lakh on Air India for not reporting the incident within 12 hours, as per rules. Delhi Police is probing the matter while Mishra has been banned from flying for four months.
