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Urinating incident | Air India’s response should have been much swifter: Tata Sons chairman Chandrasekaran

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N. Chandrasekaran, Chairman, Tata Sons said Air India fell short of addressing the situation the way it should have been. File | Photo Credit: Paul Noronha Tata Sons chairman N. Chandrasekaran on January 8 said the urinating incident on November 26 Air India flight from New York to New Delhi, has been a “matter of personal anguish to him and his colleagues at Air India”. “Air India’s response should have been much swifter. We fell short of addressing this situation the way it should have been,” the Tata Sons chairman said in a statement. Also Read | Don’t make captain, crew scapegoat in urinating incident: veteran pilots to Air India Delhi Police arrested Shankar Mishra, 34, from Bengaluru, who allegedly urinated on a woman co-passenger during the flight. He has been sent to judicial remand for 14 days by a Delhi Court which rejected a plea by police for his custody. “The Tata Group and Air India stand by the safety and well-being of our passengers and crew with full conviction. We will review and repair …

Air India urinating incident | Delhi Police arrests accused from Bengaluru ; Airline issues show cause notices to four cabin crew, pilot

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Residence of Shankar Mishra, who is booked by Delhi police for allegedly urinating on a senior citizen woman onboard an Air India flight, in Mumbai Central on January 6, 2022. | Photo Credit: PTI Delhi Police has arrested from Bengaluru the man who allegedly urinated on a woman co-passenger on an Air India flight, officials said on Saturday. Meanwhile, the airline’s CEO has said that four cabin crew and a pilot have been issued show cause notices. A special team of Delhi Police, who were camping in Bengaluru from Thursday, arrested Shankar Mishra, who in an inebriated state urinated on a female co-passenger on an Air India flight on November 26. He was on the run since there was a FIR against him in Delhi. With the assistance of sleuths from Central Crime Branch of Bengaluru City Police, he was tracked down to a service apartment in Sanjay Nagar, North Bengaluru, and was arrested from there, city police sources said. The special team from Delhi had visited his office Wells Fargo in Marathahahlli and his …

Air India CEO tells staff to report any improper behaviour on aircraft

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Air India Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director Campbell Wilson. File. | Photo Credit: PTI Air India CEO Campbell Wilson has told the airline staff to report any improper behaviour on aircraft to authorities at the earliest even if the matter appears to have been settled. In an internal communication to airlines’ employees, he reflected on the urinating incident to say that “the repulsion felt by the affected passenger is totally understandable and we share her distress.” “Whilst the story is more complicated than has been reported, there are clearly some lessons we can and must learn. “Most importantly is that, if an incident on our aircraft involves improper behaviour of such magnitude, we must report it to authorities at the earliest opportunity, even if we genuinely believe that the matter has been settled between the parties involved. “The same applies in the case of passengers deemed to meet the threshold of ‘Unruly’,” he said. Ten days after the shocking November 26 urinating incident on a New York-Delhi Air India flight, another episode of a …

“Begged Me… Said He’s A Family Man”

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The woman has detailed her “appalling experience” in her letter to Air India, which is part of the FIR. New Delhi: After a drunk passenger urinated on a woman flyer in the business class of an Air India flight last year, the crew brought the man to her seat and forced her to face him as he apologised and begged to be spared arrest, documents reveal. The woman wrote to the Air India group chairman, N Chandrasekharan, on November 27, the day after the incident on the New York-Delhi flight. But Air India filed a police complaint only on January 4 at 12 noon, reveals the FIR (First Information Report) against the offender, Mumbai businessman Shankar Mishra. Air India said it didn’t go to the police all this time because the woman had withdrawn her demand for his arrest. The police are looking for Shankar Mishra, who is missing. An airport alert has been put out for him. On November 26, Shankar Mishra, allegedly drunk, unzipped and urinated on the woman. He remained at the …