Air India urine case victim’s co-passenger has made a new disclosure. The flyer for AI108 flight on 26 November claims that the only option for the victim was to go first due to lack of seats in business class. The flight crew, however, cleaned the seat and left the blanket smelling of urine. He also says that he could have given Shankar Mishra’s seat to the victim, but he did not.
He also claimed that the pilot of the flight made the panicked passenger wait for nearly two hours before giving her a new seat. Sugata Bhattacharjee, an audiologist with a practice in the US, who was traveling with the accused to Delhi, claimed in a handwritten letter to the airline that despite having four vacant first class seats, the unhappy passenger was forced to return to her dirty seat. was forced.
In the complaint, a copy of which was reviewed by PTI, Bhattacharjee said he was seated in the first row of business class at 8A (window) next to accused Shankar Mishra, who was on seat 8C.
Shortly after lunch was served on AI 102 on 26 November (JFK New York to IGIA, New Delhi) and the lights were turned off, an intoxicated male passenger sitting in a business class seat was sitting on an elderly woman’s seat (9A ), unzipped his pants and urinated on them. The lavatory was four rows behind his seat.
Bhattacharjee said that he lost sleep when Shankar fell on him. “Initially I thought he had lost his balance due to a bad flight. However, when I was going to the toilet, I saw two of my fellow passengers in 9A and 9C in trouble,” he said. The area, it was all wet.
They wrote, “We were shocked to find that my co-passenger (8C) was so drunk that he went to the front row and urinated on it.” During this, two air hostesses helped him to clean up, change his clothes and clear his luggage and seat.
He wrote, “The incident has a multi-dimensional part. A senior citizen was traumatized due to the indecency of a passenger. She is a woman who had no idea to face obscenity.” “I am upset that the captain waited almost two hours before allotting her a new seat.”
As per the victim’s complaint, she was made to stand for 20 minutes and offered a small seat to be used by the airline staff, as there were no vacant seats in the business class. She sat on the small seat for almost two hours and was asked to go back to her seat which was still wet and smelled of urine. When she refused, the victim was offered the steward’s seat for the rest of the journey, the complaint said. Bhattacharjee praised the two cabin crew members who helped the woman in cleaning.
The non-pilot crew, he said, went above and beyond the call of their duty, “but when you have four first class seats empty, you can’t return a distressed passenger to his (dirty) seat with human remains.” Let go and wait for the crew seat to be free to move it.”
This, according to him, was “a poor judgment call by the captain”. Bhattacharjee reportedly asked the crew for a complaint book to record his protest against the handling of the situation, but he was provided with a piece of paper. He wrote his complaint on that paper.
with agency inputs