Drunk man pees on woman's seat on Air India flight

By Garima Bora

Sep 01, 2018

01:09 pm

What's the story

An intoxicated man allegedly urinated on the seat of a woman passenger onboard an Air India international flight, prompting the Civil Aviation Ministry to seek a report from AI. The incident took place on August 30 when Air India flight AI 102 was on its way to New Delhi from New York. Indrani Ghosh, the woman passenger's daughter, tweeted about the incident. Here's more.

Twitter Post

Victim's daughter expresses disgust faced by mother

@sureshpprabhu @SushmaSwaraj @airindiain 30thAug AI102 JFK to Delhi, seat36D. My mother traveling alone had to face extreme shock and trauma when a drunk passenger post dinner service fumbled across to her seat removed his pants and urinated on her seat! Please lookinto urgently

— Indrani Ghosh (@indranidreams) August 31, 2018

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Minister directs Air India to follow up matter immediately

Accusing AI of only changing her mother's seat after the incident, Indrani said in response to a tweet from activist Kavita Krishnan, "My mother while waiting in her wheelchair at Delhi airport (for her connecting flight), saw him (the accused) walk away." Junior Aviation Minister, Jayant Sinha, directed AI to follow-up the matter immediately and report back to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation.