(Oct. 4) - An Indian airliner launched an investigation Sunday into an alleged mid-air brawl between pilots and crew members aboard a flight that was packed with more than 100 passengers, BBC News reported.
The incident is said to have taken place over Pakistan Saturday aboard an Air India flight en route from the United Arab Emirates to Delhi. The scuffle supposedly began as an argument in the plane's cockpit over claims of sexual harassment. The fight then continued outside, startling passengers.
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The flight attendants alleged that the plane's two pilots sexually harassed a 24-year-old air hostess, who filed a complaint once the plane landed.
"Basically her (the air hostess) complaint had said that she had been abused, manhandled, assaulted in an undignified way. So the content of the complaint made out a case under these sections," a police official told The Times of India.
One pilot and one flight attendant suffered bruises in the melee.
An Air India spokesperson called the incident "a clear case of indiscipline" and said the airline would take action, The Times reported. All the staff involved have been suspended until the investigation is completed.
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