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.
Well, he was naked and din’t yell ‘Alla you Go to the snack bar!”..............
Depends on if it was a holiday or not...................
Are you from the Land Down Under?...................
I doubt if she could make it thru the aisle.....................
You figured me out.
Yeah. 3 passengers subdued him on the floor.
One held his arms down.
One held his legs down.
The third passenger couldn’t be reached for comment.
If you did it once, you’d never do it again.....................
That's some long lasting trauma. He has to get a ticket, then wait around a couple of hours and finally get aboard. Surely, he would have calmed down. There must be more to this story, likely in the form of chemicals.
Alcohol was probably involved....................
The third passenger was just along for the ride....................
Depends on who you ask.
I'd go with about 5% of the females, Laz would probably say 95%...
Hare freakin’ Krishna!
Doubt they could get a crane into the plane.
“You know, I actually saw a story where EVERYBODY on the plane was naked”
And they had to detain one passenger when they got dressed and hand them over to security... :)
I read the news at naturist websites and blogs by naturists.
The rest of us look much better clothed.
Geez, I thought that Jeff Sessions would have gotten over it by now ...
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