Superpower India's pilots & crew fight viciously in midair

AIR INDIA PILOTS, CREW COME TO BLOWS AT 30,000 FT.

Saurabh Sinha & Neha Lalchandani, TNN 4 October 2009, 12:53am IST

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/business/india-business/Air-India-pilots-crew-come-to-blows-at-30000-ft/articleshow/5085243.cms


NEW DELHI: The Maharaja witnessed his first in-flight Mughal-e-Azam at
30,000 feet above sea level on Saturday, as two members of the cabin

crew—one male and one female—slugged it out with the pilot and co-
pilot.
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Endangering the lives of 106 passengers and grossly violating safety
norms, the airline staffers came to blows in the cockpit and galley of
the Indian Airlines Airbus A-320 as the aircraft cruised over Pakistan
en route to Delhi via Lucknow from Sharjah.

The cabin-vs-cockpit tiff originated on the ground in Sharjah itself
and then turned into a full-blown fight once IC 884 took off soon
after midnight.

The cabin crew alleged that pilots harassed a 24-year-old female
colleague who later filed a molestation complaint against them with
the cops after the flight landed in Delhi.

The pilots, on the other hand, accused a male flight purser of
misconduct that seriously compromised flight safety, and said the
accusation of molestation aimed to protect the complainant's purser
friend—who has a commercial pilot licence (CPL)—from facing action.

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