By Online Desk
NEW DELHI: Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Thursday ordered a probe after a video exhibiting bodybuilder Bobby Kataria smoking on a SpiceJet flight surfaced on social media.
The video reveals Kataria — who has 6.3 lakh followers on Instagram — lighting a cigarette on one of many center rows of a SpiceJet airplane. Passengers will not be allowed to take a lighter on the airplane. Passengers are additionally not allowed to smoke within the airplane.
According to sources, the smoking incident passed off on SpiceJet’s SG706 flight that was coming from Dubai to Delhi.
When the video of this incident was posted on Twitter on Thursday, Scindia responded: “Investigating it. There will be no tolerance towards such hazardous behaviour.”
However, the airline has responded saying, the matter had been investigated completely in January 2022, when the video was dropped at their discover and a criticism had been filed by the airline with Udyog Vihar PS in Gurugram.
The Spokesperson of the airline mentioned, “None of the passengers or crew was aware of the act. The matter came to the airline’s notice on January 24, 2022, through social media posts. The matter was referred to Internal Committee constituted as per provisions of Civil Aviation Requirements on handling of unruly passengers (not consisting of any SpiceJet employee). The said pax was put on a no-flying list by the airline for 15 days in February 2022.”
As per the rules of aviation regulator DGCA, an airline has the facility to ban an “unruly” passenger for a sure time period if she or he violates any guidelines.
(With inputs from companies)
NEW DELHI: Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Thursday ordered a probe after a video exhibiting bodybuilder Bobby Kataria smoking on a SpiceJet flight surfaced on social media.
The video reveals Kataria — who has 6.3 lakh followers on Instagram — lighting a cigarette on one of many center rows of a SpiceJet airplane. Passengers will not be allowed to take a lighter on the airplane. Passengers are additionally not allowed to smoke within the airplane.
According to sources, the smoking incident passed off on SpiceJet’s SG706 flight that was coming from Dubai to Delhi.
When the video of this incident was posted on Twitter on Thursday, Scindia responded: “Investigating it. There will be no tolerance towards such hazardous behaviour.”
However, the airline has responded saying, the matter had been investigated completely in January 2022, when the video was dropped at their discover and a criticism had been filed by the airline with Udyog Vihar PS in Gurugram.
The Spokesperson of the airline mentioned, “None of the passengers or crew was aware of the act. The matter came to the airline’s notice on January 24, 2022, through social media posts. The matter was referred to Internal Committee constituted as per provisions of Civil Aviation Requirements on handling of unruly passengers (not consisting of any SpiceJet employee). The said pax was put on a no-flying list by the airline for 15 days in February 2022.”
As per the rules of aviation regulator DGCA, an airline has the facility to ban an “unruly” passenger for a sure time period if she or he violates any guidelines.
(With inputs from companies)
