A female passenger shouted "I am God" on the flight and ran to the door of the plane (Photo: KTVUKTVU)
A 45-year-old Italian passenger flying on a Vistara Airlines flight from Abu Dhabi to Mumbai stripped half of her clothes and started running down the aisle of the plane's cabin while shouting and cursing at the flight attendants on Monday this week.
The commotion allegedly broke out because the passenger, identified as Paola Perruccio, who booked a ticket in economy class, wanted to upgrade to a seat in business class.
According to the complaint filed against her and published in the Times of India, when the flight attendants asked her to return to her seat, she hit one flight attendant and spat on another.
After that, Procaccio, who was apparently drunk at the time of the incident, took off some of her clothes and started running in the cab.
The captain of the plane ordered her to be restrained and tied to the seat in the responsible part of the plane for the rest of the flight.
She all wanted to upgrade from tourist class to business class.
The unruly passenger is handcuffed on her way to arrest (photo: screenshot, Twitter)
The police were waiting for the passenger at the airport
Flight UK-256 landed at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport at 4.45am on Monday, after a two-and-a-half-hour flight from Abu Dhabi - where police were waiting to meet the Airbus A320 and take the passenger into custody.
A spokesperson for the Mumbai Police confirmed that the officers arrested an Italian citizen after it was alleged that she attacked the cabin crew and disrupted the flight.
According to the local media, a preliminary process has already begun in court and the passenger was released on bail of 25 thousand rupees (about 305 dollars) until the trial.
The airline's spokesperson explained in a statement: "We confirm that there was an unruly female passenger on Vistra UK flight 256 that flew from Abu Dhabi to Mumbai on January 30, 2023. In light of the continued unruly conduct and violent behavior, the captain warned the female passenger and made a decision to restrain her."
The company spokesperson added that the cabin crew and pilots followed standard protocol procedures throughout the incident and made sure that the police were waiting for the plane upon landing.
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Unruly behavior of passengers in Indian airlines
Vistara Airlines owned by the Tata Corporation is to merge with Air India - the airline that was intensively investigated for its handling of the famous urine incident that was also published in Walla!
Tourism, when a business class passenger urinated on a 70-year-old female passenger while drunk.
Air India faced harsh reactions, after it was revealed that the cabin crew and pilots did not inform the authorities about what happened, and the suspect was allowed to leave the plane without any disturbance.
Global aviation officials fined Air India and temporarily suspended the pilot, while the airline promised to improve its crew training systems as well as the issue of incident reporting by crew.
Furthermore, Air India has changed its policy on serving alcohol to passengers, as part of a wider discussion about unruly passenger behavior on Indian airline flights.
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