Mumbai: A 21-year-old student from Mumbai, reportedly suffering from depression, created ruckus on an Indigo Airlines flight from Delhi on Friday afternoon, delaying the flight for an hour. He was later asked to get off board.
As the flight started to move towards the runway for takeoff at 2.30 pm, Rishabh Sethi ran to the cockpit door and started banging on it, demanding to see the captain. When prevented, he started screaming and had to be overpowered by passengers in an exercise that lasted about 20 minutes.
Airline crew said they tried to talk to Sethi but he refused to budge. He manhandled a crew member when she tried to call the captain using the intercom. "He snatched the handset from the crew member and tried to speak to the captain," an airport official said. As Sethi got more aggressive, some passengers intervened and overpowered him.
In the interest of passenger safety, the pilot took a call to reject the takeoff and returned to the aircraft bay, where Sethi was handed over to the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel, who had been alerted by the Air Traffic Controller (ATC).
Since Sethi had two checked-in bags that also had to be offloaded, the flight was delayed for an hour and took off only at 3.39 pm.
23/08/14 Aditya Anand/Mumbai Mirror
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As the flight started to move towards the runway for takeoff at 2.30 pm, Rishabh Sethi ran to the cockpit door and started banging on it, demanding to see the captain. When prevented, he started screaming and had to be overpowered by passengers in an exercise that lasted about 20 minutes.
Airline crew said they tried to talk to Sethi but he refused to budge. He manhandled a crew member when she tried to call the captain using the intercom. "He snatched the handset from the crew member and tried to speak to the captain," an airport official said. As Sethi got more aggressive, some passengers intervened and overpowered him.
In the interest of passenger safety, the pilot took a call to reject the takeoff and returned to the aircraft bay, where Sethi was handed over to the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel, who had been alerted by the Air Traffic Controller (ATC).
Since Sethi had two checked-in bags that also had to be offloaded, the flight was delayed for an hour and took off only at 3.39 pm.
23/08/14 Aditya Anand/Mumbai Mirror
