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Air India: Man Held For Urinating, Defecating On Floor Of Mid-air Flight

 According to the FIR, a passenger who was identified as Ram Singh, on seat number 17F, defecated, urinated, and spat in row 9 of the aircraft. On arrival, the head of Air India security attended and escorted the passenger to the local police station

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After a gap of few months since last year's December, Air India witnessed another similar incident of passenger's misconduct as a male passenger was held on Monday for allegedly defecating and urinating on the floor of a Mumbai-Delhi flight mid-air, police said on Monday.

According to the officials, the incident took place onboard flight AIC 866 on June 24.

What did the FIR say?

 According to the FIR, a passenger who was identified as Ram Singh, on seat number 17F, defecated, urinated, and spat in row 9 of the aircraft.

The FIR also said that the cabin crew gave him a verbal warning to the passenger upon observing the misconduct and he was also secluded from the others.

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The pilot-in-command was also informed of the situation.

Seeking security on arrival to escort the passenger, a message was sent to the company immediately, the FIR later added.

On arrival, the head of Air India security attended and escorted the passenger to the local police station, it said.

A case under sections 294 (obscene acts) and 510 (misconduct in public by a drunken person) of the Indian Penal Code was registered, it added.

Air India's previous incidents

Last year, on November 26  a man, who was in an inebriated condition, allegedly urinated on a woman co-passenger onboard an Air India New York- Delhi flight.

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Within 10 days of this incident, another similar episode of a "drunk" male passenger allegedly "urinating" on a blanket of a female passenger was reported on a Paris-New Delhi Air India flight on December 6.

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