New Delhi, January 6: The woman who complained about a male co-passenger urinating on her during an Air India flight on November 26 last year had informed the crew that she did not want to see his face and was “stunned” when the offender was brought before her and he “started crying and profusely apologising”.
The accused Shankar Mishra, who was working with the US multinational firm Wells Fargo at a senior position in India, has been sacked from the job, the company said on Friday.
A four-member Delhi police team on Friday afternoon landed in Mumbai in search of Mishra, but found his home locked.
Amid this, Air India CEO Campbell Wilson, in an internal communication, told the airline staff to report any improper behaviour on aircraft to authorities at the earliest even if the matter appears to have been settled.
Wilson wrote the communication to employees after aviation safety regulator DGCA slammed the Tata Group airline, saying that its conduct was “unprofessional” and led to the “systematic failure” on the New York-Delhi flight incident, which it did nor report to the DGCA.
The regulator, in an advisory to all airlines, warned them that non-compliance with regulations on handling unruly passengers will be dealt with strictly and invite enforcement action.
