Drunk man urinates on woman in business class on Air India flight

New Delhi:

In November, a drunken man urinated on a female passenger on an Air India flight in business class and left without taking any action. Weeks after the incident, Air India recommended putting unruly passengers on the no-fly list.

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation seeks reports from airlines. Regulators said they would “take action against anyone found to be at fault.”

On November 26, an intoxicated passenger on an Air India flight from New York to Delhi in business class allegedly unzipped a passenger in his 70s and urinated on him.

The lights dimmed after lunch, so few people understood what was going on. After urinating, the man said he didn’t move until another passenger told him to get off.

The woman complained to the crew, saying her clothes, shoes and bag were soaked with urine. Her crew allegedly handed her her clothes and slippers and told her to return to her seat.

After the flight landed in Delhi, the passenger is said to have departed without facing repercussions for his egregious behavior.

The airline took action after a woman wrote a letter to Tata Group chairman N. Chandrasekaran, according to the Times of India.

An Air India source told NDTV that a police complaint had been filed against the man. “Air India has formed an internal committee to recommend placing the male passenger on the ‘No Fly List’. The matter is under the government committee and a decision is awaited,” the source said.

The woman wrote in the letter that she didn’t want to sit on a dirty seat. An hour later, she was told by a flight attendant to return to her seat, which was covered with a sheet but still smelled of urine, and the flight attendant sprayed the seat with disinfectant. When she adamantly refused to take the same seat, she was given another crew seat and spent the rest of her flight there.

The woman claims she was not given another cabin seat even though many business class seats were available.