By PTI
NEW DELHI: Air India on Thursday mentioned it has imposed a four-month flying ban on Shankar Mishra, who’s accused of urinating on a girl co-passenger onboard a flight in November final 12 months.
An airline official mentioned the ban is with quick impact and is along with the 30-day ban it had imposed on the person earlier.
The incident Mishra, who was in an inebriated situation allegedly urinated on the girl co-passenger on board the Air India flight from New York to Delhi on November 26, 2022.
“The independent three-member Internal Committee under the Chairmanship of the former District Judge has concluded that Shankar Mishra is covered under the definition of ‘unruly passenger’ and is banned from flying for a period of 4 months as per the relevant provisions of the Civil Aviation Requirements (CAR),” an Air India spokesperson mentioned in a press release.
The passenger has already been placed on the airline’s ‘no fly record’.
Tata group-owned Air India has shared a replica of the committee’s report with the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and also will be intimating different airways working within the nation, the spokesperson mentioned.
Other airways can take their very own choice on whether or not any ban needs to be imposed on the person. Currently, Mishra is in jail and the case is earlier than a Delhi courtroom.
On January 4, Air India mentioned it has imposed a 30-day journey ban on Mishra however didn’t disclose the time interval of the ban.
A day in a while January 5, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) issued notices to the officers and crew of the New York-Delhi flight, asking why motion shouldn’t be taken in opposition to them for “dereliction” of obligation whereas dealing with the November 26 ‘urination’ incident.
“The conduct of the concerned airline appears to be unprofessional and has led to a systemic failure,” the regulator had mentioned concerning the incident.
DGCA has issued present trigger notices to the accountable supervisor of Air India, its director of in-flight companies, and all of the pilots and cabin crew members of that flight as to why enforcement motion shouldn’t be taken in opposition to them for dereliction of their regulatory obligations.
Under DGCA guidelines, the airline involved is liable for informing the regulator inside 12 hours of the touchdown of the plane in case of any incident of unruly passengers/ passenger rage/misconduct reported of their flight.
Besides, the airline involved has to arrange a three-member inside committee.
It could have a retired District and Sessions Judge as Chairman, a consultant from a unique scheduled airline as a member and a consultant from a passengers’ affiliation or shopper affiliation or a retired officer of the Consumer Dispute Redressal Forum because the third member.
The committee can determine the period of the flying ban on the unruly passenger inside 30 days and there might be a lifetime ban.
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During the pendency of the choice by the committee, the airline involved might ban such an unruly passenger from flying for a interval of as much as 30 days, as per the principles.
After the committee takes the choice, the airline ought to preserve a database of all such unruly passengers and inform the identical to DGCA, which is the custodian for sustaining the ‘no-fly record’.
The lady, who had accused Mishra of urinating on her on the flight, on January 13 rejected the claims made by him that she appears to have urinated on herself, saying these are “completely false and concocted and by their very nature are disparaging and derogatory”.
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Mishra’s counsel, whereas arguing in opposition to a police petition searching for revision of an order handed by a magisterial courtroom refusing his custodial interrogation, on January 12 claimed that he didn’t commit the offence and that she urinated on herself.
On January 8, Tata Group Chairman N Chandrasekaran admitted that Air India’s response to the incident of the drunk passenger urinating on the girl ought to have been “much swifter”.
“We fell short of addressing this situation the way we should have,” he had mentioned in a press release.
NEW DELHI: Air India on Thursday mentioned it has imposed a four-month flying ban on Shankar Mishra, who’s accused of urinating on a girl co-passenger onboard a flight in November final 12 months.
An airline official mentioned the ban is with quick impact and is along with the 30-day ban it had imposed on the person earlier.
The incident Mishra, who was in an inebriated situation allegedly urinated on the girl co-passenger on board the Air India flight from New York to Delhi on November 26, 2022.
“The independent three-member Internal Committee under the Chairmanship of the former District Judge has concluded that Shankar Mishra is covered under the definition of ‘unruly passenger’ and is banned from flying for a period of 4 months as per the relevant provisions of the Civil Aviation Requirements (CAR),” an Air India spokesperson mentioned in a press release.
The passenger has already been placed on the airline’s ‘no fly record’.
Tata group-owned Air India has shared a replica of the committee’s report with the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and also will be intimating different airways working within the nation, the spokesperson mentioned.
Other airways can take their very own choice on whether or not any ban needs to be imposed on the person. Currently, Mishra is in jail and the case is earlier than a Delhi courtroom.
On January 4, Air India mentioned it has imposed a 30-day journey ban on Mishra however didn’t disclose the time interval of the ban.
A day in a while January 5, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) issued notices to the officers and crew of the New York-Delhi flight, asking why motion shouldn’t be taken in opposition to them for “dereliction” of obligation whereas dealing with the November 26 ‘urination’ incident.
“The conduct of the concerned airline appears to be unprofessional and has led to a systemic failure,” the regulator had mentioned concerning the incident.
DGCA has issued present trigger notices to the accountable supervisor of Air India, its director of in-flight companies, and all of the pilots and cabin crew members of that flight as to why enforcement motion shouldn’t be taken in opposition to them for dereliction of their regulatory obligations.
Under DGCA guidelines, the airline involved is liable for informing the regulator inside 12 hours of the touchdown of the plane in case of any incident of unruly passengers/ passenger rage/misconduct reported of their flight.
Besides, the airline involved has to arrange a three-member inside committee.
It could have a retired District and Sessions Judge as Chairman, a consultant from a unique scheduled airline as a member and a consultant from a passengers’ affiliation or shopper affiliation or a retired officer of the Consumer Dispute Redressal Forum because the third member.
The committee can determine the period of the flying ban on the unruly passenger inside 30 days and there might be a lifetime ban.
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During the pendency of the choice by the committee, the airline involved might ban such an unruly passenger from flying for a interval of as much as 30 days, as per the principles.
After the committee takes the choice, the airline ought to preserve a database of all such unruly passengers and inform the identical to DGCA, which is the custodian for sustaining the ‘no-fly record’.
The lady, who had accused Mishra of urinating on her on the flight, on January 13 rejected the claims made by him that she appears to have urinated on herself, saying these are “completely false and concocted and by their very nature are disparaging and derogatory”.
ALSO READ | Air India ‘urinating’ incident: Accused makes U-turn, says lady peed on herself
Mishra’s counsel, whereas arguing in opposition to a police petition searching for revision of an order handed by a magisterial courtroom refusing his custodial interrogation, on January 12 claimed that he didn’t commit the offence and that she urinated on herself.
On January 8, Tata Group Chairman N Chandrasekaran admitted that Air India’s response to the incident of the drunk passenger urinating on the girl ought to have been “much swifter”.
“We fell short of addressing this situation the way we should have,” he had mentioned in a press release.