Clean My Lunchbox: Pilot to Purser, Leads to a Flight Delay

Pilot and purser falls into a fight when asked to clean his lunchbox in an Air India flight.

An on board incident reportedly involving a fight between the pilot and purser took place on Monday, 17 June, in an Air India Flight AI-770 from Bengaluru to Kolkata.

The pilot and purser of flight AI-770 allegedly got into a bizarre fight when he asked his senior crew member to rinse his lunchbox at the time of take off. The fight went on till the flight was ready to take off. By the time the crew members noticed, it came in full view of the passengers on board. The captain and ember of the crew have now been ‘de-rostered’, according to this report on NDTV.

As soon as the information reached the airline authorities, both of them were grounded and the flight was delayed for two hours until another captain and purser joined.

The case is now under the examination of Air India and Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).