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Air India pilots, crew slug it out at 30,000 ft
Times of India ^
| 10/3/2009
| Saurabh Sinha
Posted on 10/03/2009 6:35:21 PM PDT by Saije
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.
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.
No party denied that blows and abuses were exchanged as bewildered passengers looked on. Sources said that the female cabin crew member and the co-pilot sustained bruises...
There were unconfirmed reports that at one stage the cockpit was unmanned, as the crew was busy fighting outside. Things allegedly degenerated to the point where the captain threatened to divert the plane to Karachi, likening the situation, sources said, to a "hijack"...
(Excerpt) Read more at timesofindia.indiatimes.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: airline; crew; fight; india; napl
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To: JRios1968
Okay. I’m crying and I have a stomach ache. Happy now? ;-D
To: Perdogg; Clemenza; Clintonfatigued; Impy; AuH2ORepublican; Victoria Delsoul; darkangel82; ...
*humor ping to thread and post #39*
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posted on
10/04/2009 4:55:28 AM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
To: JRios1968
“Who put the goat in there?”
43
posted on
10/04/2009 6:42:08 AM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Tar is cheap, and feathers are plentiful.)
To: Saije
44
posted on
10/04/2009 6:46:52 AM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Sarah Palin-Jim DeMint 2012 - Liz Cheney for Sec of State - Duncan Hunter SecDef)
To: Saije
“And as muslims go, they’re relatively sane..”
Seeing as how India is 80% Hindu.
ROFL Thanks for getting my Sunday off to a rollicking start.
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posted on
10/04/2009 7:56:02 AM PDT
by
ChocChipCookie
(When a president must hire out his real job to 32 czars, he was never CEO material.)
To: libh8er
It’s a shame the passengers didn’t choose sides and the entire cabin erupt into a bar fight. While the plane is in the air, I take the side of the pilots, no matter what.
46
posted on
10/04/2009 7:58:36 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: Cailleach; nnn0jeh
47
posted on
10/04/2009 8:00:05 AM PDT
by
kalee
(01/20/13 The end of an error.... Obama even worse than Carter.)
To: dragnet2
Yep, scarey thought, huh?
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posted on
10/04/2009 8:00:58 AM PDT
by
kalee
(01/20/13 The end of an error.... Obama even worse than Carter.)
To: stormer
49
posted on
10/04/2009 8:06:33 AM PDT
by
MaxMax
(Obama can't play in the Olympic reindeer games)
To: TheOldLady
Oh, there’s PLENTY more where that came from!
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posted on
10/04/2009 8:08:49 AM PDT
by
JRios1968
(The real first rule of Fight Club: don't invite Chuck Norris...EVER)
To: BlueDragon
I, For the life of me can think of no reason that I would need to fly to Karachi.
51
posted on
10/04/2009 11:21:22 AM PDT
by
Delta Dawn
(The whole truth.)
To: TheOldLady
Everything goes better with Leonidas.
SA&
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posted on
10/04/2009 11:31:46 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
("When France chides you for appeasement, you know you're scraping bottom." --Charles Krauthammer)
To: Delta Dawn
I can't think of why you would need to go, either...
To: JRios1968
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posted on
10/04/2009 11:41:00 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
("When France chides you for appeasement, you know you're scraping bottom." --Charles Krauthammer)
To: Slings and Arrows
Stop kicking people into the pit of doom!
To: TheOldLady
Stop kicking people into the pit of doom! Aww honey, they were bad people.
56
posted on
10/04/2009 6:47:33 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
("When France chides you for appeasement, you know you're scraping bottom." --Charles Krauthammer)
To: TheOldLady; Slings and Arrows
Stop kicking people into the pit of doom!
"THIS...IS...KARACHI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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posted on
10/04/2009 8:44:02 PM PDT
by
JRios1968
(The real first rule of Fight Club: don't invite Chuck Norris...EVER)
To: Slings and Arrows; JRios1968
"SPAH-TONZ!"Meet them today.
To: fieldmarshaldj; Clintonfatigued
"here were unconfirmed reports that at one stage the cockpit was unmanned, as the crew was busy fighting outside. Things allegedly degenerated to the point where the captain threatened to divert the plane to Karachi, likening the situation, sources said, to a "hijack"..."Don't make me come back there. I swear kids I will turn this plane right around!
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posted on
10/05/2009 8:05:22 PM PDT
by
Impy
(RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN | NO "INDIVIDUAL MANDATE"!!!!!!!)
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