Flight in India leaves over 50 passengers stranded on tarmac
- India’s aviation regulator requested a report from domestic airline Go First about how the passengers were left behind while their luggage departed
- This is the most recent complaint against airlines in India, with Indian police last week arresting an airline passenger for urinating on a woman
India’s aviation regulator has asked domestic airline Go First for a report on how more than 50 passengers were forgotten on a bus on the tarmac in Bangalore while their flight took off for Delhi.
Around 55 passengers were stranded on the bus early on Monday morning as their flight G8 116 left due to some miscommunication between the ground staff and crew, NDTV news channel reported.
The passengers had their boarding passes and baggage tags and their luggage went off on the original flight while they were left behind.
A spokesman for Go First said the incident was being investigated. He said 53 passengers were taken on a later flight on a different airline, while two opted for refunds.
The passengers were accommodated on another flight to Delhi around four hours later, the Times of India newspaper reported. They were reportedly taken back to the terminal, issued fresh boarding passes and had to go through security all over again.
There have been a series of recent complaints against airlines in India recently.
Last week, Indian police arrested an unruly airline passenger following a complaint by a woman aboard an Air India flight from New York that he urinated on her in business class.
A New Delhi court sent him to prison for 14 days as police investigate the complaint accusing Mishra of outraging the modesty of a woman during the New York-New Delhi flight. If convicted, he faces up to three years in prison.
Air India also issued written notices and grounded one pilot and four cabin crew as the incident triggered outrage on social media and among activists who said that banning the man from flying for 30 days was not enough.
Additional reporting by AP
