Flying the friendly skies takes on a whole new meaning if you’re dealing with Air India.  While the pilots and crew will definitely be friendly to you, you’d better hope they don’t get too friendly with others.  After copilot Captain Ranbir Singh was accused by a female flight attendant of getting a little too friendly, in the unwanted sexual harassment sense, her fellow steward Amit Khanna decided to defend her honor by punching the copilot in the middle of a flight between Sharjah and Delhi.

All involved are very lucky that there wasn’t a crash.  The flight had 106 people on board, not counting the crew, and in mid-air is no place to resolve your differences via fisticuffs.  The leader of the flight crew, Aditya Chopra, should’ve gotten all involved to cool it, separate, and deal with it all on the ground.  The fact that he even let the two come to blows is a complete failure on his part.

It doesn’t matter who hit who first, or who fondled who, or whatever.  When you are flying at hundreds of miles an hour in a giant missle, none of that really matters.  The important thing is not falling out of the sky.

Tags: Air India, IC-884, crew fights in cockpit, fight on an airplane, unusual fights, sexual harassment, steward fights pilot, Ranbir Singh, Amit Khanna, Aditya Chopra

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