Posted on 01/02/2019 10:31:53 AM PST by Red Badger
An Air India Express flight passenger stripped naked and walked down the aisle mid-air in an incident that shocked the co-flyers. The incident took place during a flight heading to Lucknow, India, from Dubai.
The airline crew quickly reacted to the shocking act and wrapped the 35-year-old man with a blanket, according to local news agency ANI. Two crew members then held him down in a seat as the plane made its way to Lucknow.
After the flight landed at the airport, security took custody of the nude passenger.
“As per the direction of the Captain of the flight, the passenger was handed over to Airlines Security at Lucknow Airport where investigation is underway,” Air India Express spokesman told ANI. The plane later embarked on its journey to Dubai.
While the motive of the man remained unclear, airline officials told local daily Times of India that he was suffering “mental trauma” following alleged harassment from his employer.
This is not the first incident where a passenger stripped naked during a flight.
In an incident in February 2018, a man locked himself in an Alaska Airline plane’s bathroom, stripped naked and refused to follow instructions from flight attendants during a Seattle-bound flight. The incident forced the plane to return to Anchorage.
“There was a subject on the aircraft that had barricaded or locked himself in the bathroom,” Sgt. Darcey Perry told local media at the time. “Flight attendants did find that the subject was naked.”
In another similar incident in 2017, a Spirit Airlines flight from Las Vegas to Oakland was delayed after a passenger stripped naked shortly after boarding.
“He removed his clothes and then approached a flight attendant,” McCarran International Airport spokesman Chris Jones told a local NBC News affiliate. Police arrived at the scene and the passenger received medical attention.
There have been several other passenger-related incidents with Air India.
In August 2018, a woman on Twitter complained against an unidentified man who allegedly urinated on her mother's seat during a flight. The woman claimed the man was intoxicated and "fumbled across to her [mother's] seat, removed his pants and urinated on her seat!" The incident took place onboard Air India flight AI 102, which was flying in from New York to New Delhi.
That’s what I was going to say — maybe this is a reversal of the decline in the quality of in-flight entertainment.
Makes you want to disinfect your hands (and the money) after they pay you.
The way they keep reducing space per passenger, before long we’ll all be boarding naked.
He can fit a pee in a cup?? It’d take me at least a gallon thermos.
A former prime minister of India drank his own urine as a form of alternative medicine:
Chin chin: Urine-drinking Hindu cult believes a warm cup before sunrise straight from a virgin cow heals cancer - and followers are queuing up to try it:
India’s bizarre—and occasionally horrifying—obsession with urine:
https://qz.com/india/401725/indias-bizarre-and-occasionally-horrifying-obsession-with-urine/
It wouldn’t be so bad if more women did it...................
You know, I actually saw a story where EVERYBODY on the plane was naked. I think it was a Brit naturist vacation story. There was even pictures. I wouldn’t mind taking a flight like that. It’s when just one guy is naked. Then it seems a little weird.
Must have been a TSA training flight...................
Chinese traditional medicine also recommends drinking urine - in particular, old men drink the urine of infant boys, and same for old women and young girls.
Supposedly, has lots of hormones and nutrients produced by their young bodies that are deficient in the elderly.
I’ll pass.......................
I’m an OCD handwasher because of stuff like that. Parents think it’s cute to make the kid pay for the pizza. Kid opens the door, sneezes, wipes his arm on his sleeve, then hands me the money.
Post-9/11 acting freaky aboard a flight is not very smart. Liable to get one beaten to death by his fellow passengers.
Well it's nice someone wanted to marry him.
How many airline miles do you get for doing that?
They would likely still scan you and pat you down.
I do this every time I fly.
I take it you don’t fly very often......................
Air New Zealand put out a naked safety video. And they even have a nude commercial. They ‘cover up’ with body paint.
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