{"id":308884,"date":"2020-01-06T10:09:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T04:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=308884"},"modified":"2020-01-06T10:16:30","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T04:46:30","slug":"passengers-manhandle-air-india-crew-threaten-to-break-open-cockpit-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/passengers-manhandle-air-india-crew-threaten-to-break-open-cockpit-door\/","title":{"rendered":"Passengers manhandle Air India crew, threaten to break open cockpit door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unruly passengers allegedly manhandled cabin crew members and threatened to break open the cockpit door of Air India&#8217;s Boeing 747 aircraft after their Delhi-Mumbai flight on Thursday was delayed due to a technical problem, according to an airline official. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The AI865 flight on Thursday got delayed as it developed a technical snag. It had to return to the bay. Passengers started knocking on the cockpit door, asking and taunting the pilots to come out,&#8221; an airline official told PTI. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One male passenger even said that he will break open the cockpit door if the pilots didn&#8217;t come out,&#8221; the official said, adding the situation inside the plane &#8220;went from bad to worse&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>According to the official, a female passenger allegedly even manhandled a cabin crew member, grabbing her arm in order to open the main exit gate quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unruly passengers allegedly manhandled cabin crew members and threatened to break open the cockpit door of Air India&#8217;s Boeing 747 aircraft after their Delhi-Mumbai flight on Thursday was delayed due to a technical problem, according to an airline official. &#8220;The AI865 flight on Thursday got delayed as it developed a technical snag. It had to return to the bay. Passengers started knocking on the cockpit door, asking and taunting the pilots to come out,&#8221; an airline official told PTI. &#8220;One male passenger even said that he will break open the cockpit door if the pilots didn&#8217;t come out,&#8221; the official [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}