Stunned Passengers Watch Pilots Slug It Out
- Two pilots have been grounded after they allegedly left their cockpit mid-flight to trade punches.
- Two pilots have been grounded after they allegedly left their cockpit mid-flight to trade punches with crew members in front of stunned passengers.
- Severe turbulence broke out on the Air India flight after an air hostess accused the men of sexual harassment.
- The 120 passengers watched as the pair left the jet controls to brawl in the aisle with the crew, the Times Of India reported.
- As the row escalated the pilots threatened to divert the jet to Pakistan.
- Air India said the two pilots had been de-rostered and an investigation has been been launched.
- Two crew members have also been suspended.
- A 24-year-old air hostess has filed a police complaint against one of the pilots for "outraging the modesty of a woman", the paper said.
- The woman is alleged to have been pushed out of the cockpit after she deflected the pilots' attentions.
- The air hostess sustained bruises and injuries on her hand, Joint Commissioner of Police (operations) Satyendera Garg said.
- There are several eyewitnesses and we are recording their statements.
- The brawl kicked off on the Airbus A-320 flight from Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates to Delhi.
- But co-pilot Amit Khanna denied there had been a punch-up.
- There was no fight between us on the flight," he told the paper.
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