Chaos in ‘The Air’ – Passenger Punched and Spat on Flight Attendants – Newsbomb – News

Chaos occurred during a Vistara Airlines flight from Abu Dhabi to Mumbai on Monday, January 30.

The crew of an Indian airline has strapped an Italian woman to her seat during the flight after she punched one crew member and spat on another.

The woman was arrested in Mumbai and later released on bail, but her lawyer dismissed the allegations as a “false story”.

For its part, the airline said the flight attendants had to restrain the woman due to “continued violent and promiscuous behaviour”.

According to The Times of India, a Vistara crew member claimed in a police complaint that the female passenger punched and spat on their colleague.

The flight attendant alleged that the woman’s aggressive behavior emerged after the crew noticed she had left her seat in economy class to take a seat in business class. Next to the same complaint woman He stripped naked and filled the plane with rubbish..

Vistara said in a statement that the flight’s captain “issued a warning card and made the decision to restrain the customer” because of her behavior.

The woman’s lawyer told the BBC that the woman “felt uncomfortable” in her assigned seat and “asked to be moved to an empty seat”, which caused a “disagreement” with crew. She was also not allowed to use the toilet, she said, because of the disturbances.

“She was later allowed to go to the toilet but was restrained on the way back,” her lawyer said, denying police officers’ reports that the woman was intoxicated.

A senior Mumbai police official told reporters that the woman had been “arrested for misconduct”.

It is a fact that inappropriate behavior by airline passengers has increased in India since the arrest of a man in January for allegedly urinating on a female passenger. The incident sparked criticism of Air India’s handling of the incident.