By PTI
NEW DELHI: In a unusual incident, a lady passenger was bitten by a scorpion onboard an Air India flight from Nagpur to Mumbai last month.
On landing on the airport, the passenger was attended by a doctor, subsequently dealt with at a hospital and discharged, the airline talked about in a press launch on Saturday.
Air India talked about there was an “extremely rare and unfortunate incident involving a scorpion biting a passenger onboard our flight AI 630 on April 23, 2023.”
According to the airline, it adopted the protocol and carried out an entire inspection of the aircraft and positioned the scorpion after which a due fumigation course of was carried out.
Following the incident, Air India requested the catering division to advise dry cleaners to confirm their companies for any mattress bugs infestation and if compulsory, carry out fumigation of the companies as there is a danger of bugs discovering their method into the aircraft by the offers, an Air India official talked about.
Earlier moreover, there have been instances of reptiles being found onboard aircraft.
In December last yr, a snake was found inside the cargo preserve of an Air India Express airplane from Calicut after it landed on the Dubai airport.
NEW DELHI: In a unusual incident, a lady passenger was bitten by a scorpion onboard an Air India flight from Nagpur to Mumbai last month.
On landing on the airport, the passenger was attended by a doctor, subsequently dealt with at a hospital and discharged, the airline talked about in a press launch on Saturday.
Air India talked about there was an “extremely rare and unfortunate incident involving a scorpion biting a passenger onboard our flight AI 630 on April 23, 2023.”googletag.cmd.push(carry out() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
According to the airline, it adopted the protocol and carried out an entire inspection of the aircraft and positioned the scorpion after which a due fumigation course of was carried out.
Following the incident, Air India requested the catering division to advise dry cleaners to confirm their companies for any mattress bugs infestation and if compulsory, carry out fumigation of the companies as there is a danger of bugs discovering their method into the aircraft by the offers, an Air India official talked about.
Earlier moreover, there have been instances of reptiles being found onboard aircraft.
In December last yr, a snake was found inside the cargo preserve of an Air India Express airplane from Calicut after it landed on the Dubai airport.