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Depressed’ Mumbai student creates ruckus, delays flight by an hour
By Aditya Anand, Mumbai Mirror | Aug 24, 2014, 12.31 AM IST
A 21-year-old student from Mumbai, reportedly suffering from depression, created ruckus on an Indigo Airlines flight from Delhi on Friday afternoon, delaying the flight for an hour. He was later asked to get off board.
As the flight started to move towards the runway for takeoff at 2.30 pm, Rishabh Sethi ran to the cockpit door and started banging on it, demanding to see the captain. When prevented, he started screaming and had to be overpowered by passengers in an exercise that lasted about 20 minutes.
Airline crew said they tried to talk to Sethi but he refused to budge. He manhandled a crew member when she tried to call the captain using the intercom. "He snatched the handset from the crew member and tried to speak to the captain," an airport official said. As Sethi got more aggressive, some passengers intervened and overpowered him.
In the interest of passenger safety, the pilot took a call to reject the takeoff and returned to the aircraft bay, where Sethi was handed over to the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel, who had been alerted by the Air Traffic Controller (ATC).
Since Sethi had two checked-in bags that also had to be offloaded, the flight was delayed for an hour and took off only at 3.39 pm.
A case under the Aircraft Act and Indian Penal Code was registered against Sethi at Indira Gandhi International Airport's domestic police station. "We are investigating Sethi's strange behaviour. He was immediately arrested but later released on bail," said Irshad Haidar, DCP-Airport, Delhi police.
Haider said Sethi's maternal grandfather and an aunt, who live in a Haryana village on the outskirts of Delhi, rushed in on being informed and later bailed him out.
"They told us that Sethi had been suffering from depression for a while. We have asked them to furnish complete details of his condition and the medication he was under," Haider said. Statements by fellow passengers and crew indicated that Sethi might have been under the influence of some drug.
In the last five days, Sethi is the second unruly passenger to be handed over to security personnel at Delhi airport. On Wednesday, a passenger on Air India's Melbourne-Delhi flight got unruly after a few drinks and allegedly tore clothes of two flight pursers and tried to beat up and bite some fellow passengers.
As the flight started to move towards the runway for takeoff at 2.30 pm, Rishabh Sethi ran to the cockpit door and started banging on it, demanding to see the captain. When prevented, he started screaming and had to be overpowered by passengers in an exercise that lasted about 20 minutes.
Airline crew said they tried to talk to Sethi but he refused to budge. He manhandled a crew member when she tried to call the captain using the intercom. "He snatched the handset from the crew member and tried to speak to the captain," an airport official said. As Sethi got more aggressive, some passengers intervened and overpowered him.
In the interest of passenger safety, the pilot took a call to reject the takeoff and returned to the aircraft bay, where Sethi was handed over to the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel, who had been alerted by the Air Traffic Controller (ATC).
Since Sethi had two checked-in bags that also had to be offloaded, the flight was delayed for an hour and took off only at 3.39 pm.
A case under the Aircraft Act and Indian Penal Code was registered against Sethi at Indira Gandhi International Airport's domestic police station. "We are investigating Sethi's strange behaviour. He was immediately arrested but later released on bail," said Irshad Haidar, DCP-Airport, Delhi police.
Haider said Sethi's maternal grandfather and an aunt, who live in a Haryana village on the outskirts of Delhi, rushed in on being informed and later bailed him out.
"They told us that Sethi had been suffering from depression for a while. We have asked them to furnish complete details of his condition and the medication he was under," Haider said. Statements by fellow passengers and crew indicated that Sethi might have been under the influence of some drug.
In the last five days, Sethi is the second unruly passenger to be handed over to security personnel at Delhi airport. On Wednesday, a passenger on Air India's Melbourne-Delhi flight got unruly after a few drinks and allegedly tore clothes of two flight pursers and tried to beat up and bite some fellow passengers.
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