Mumbai: Passengers of Air India flight that was on its way from Mumbai to Dubai were left struck in Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport for several hours. Flight AI 909 which was to take off at 8:25 AM, took off at 4 PM PM on the Republic Day eve last Saturday. They were deboarded at 1 PM and were onboarded again in between.
In the video that has gone viral on social media, passengers can be seen creating a ruckus inside the aircraft and also demanding updates from the airline crew. Got delayed due to technical reasons.
Passengers of an Air India flight from Mumbai to Dubai were allegedly left stuck on board the plane on Saturday after the flight got delayed for nearly several hours. According to officials, the flight.
Viral video shows passengers demanding answers from crew
The clip shows angry passengers demanding answers from crew members and asking them to open the door of the flight. Another passenger can be seen hitting the overhead bin, “We don’t trust you.” a passenger can be heard saying. “Open the door,” another passenger said.
As the protest from the passengers intensified, they were finally deboarded at around 1 PM. According to the flight tracker, the AI 909 flight from Mumbai to Dubai finally took off at 4:32 PM. Sharing the clip on social media a passenger shared details on how co-passengers stuck inside the aircraft. He also alleged that the air conditioning on the flight was not working.
‘Passengers started feeling suffocated’
“Passengers started feeling suffocated and yet the crew did not provide any relief until passengers forced them to open the gates and deboard,” the passenger wrote. “Truly not the kind of experience we expected from an airline owned by one of the most accountable business houses @tata_trusts. The captain not once came out of the cockpit to address the passengers to assuage the situation but only waited inside until passengers lost their calm after 5 hours waiting patiently,” the passenger added further.
