Air India urination row: top bosses were informed of incident after flight landed, emails reveal: Report

A crew member onboard the Air India flight on November 26 last year, had reported the incident of a drunk passenger urinating on a woman co-passenger, to top officials of the airline, as per media reports.

According to e-mails accessed by ANI, the Air India cabin crew supervisor had reportedly sent out an email on November 27 to its CEO Campbell Wilson within hours of the flight's touchdown in Delhi.

The top management at Air India had previously claimed that they were not informed about the incident after the flight landed.

Air India chairman and managing director (CMD) Campbell Wilson stated that the airline had constituted an internal committee to probe lapses on part of its crew and address the deficiencies that delayed quick redressal of the situation that occurred after a passenger on board Flight AI-102 allegedly urinated on a woman passenger, was reported to airlines officials soon after landing.

The mail containing the 'brief summary' of the incident was also acknowledged with a reply of "Ok, Noted," at 3.47 Hours.

One of the initial emails after the telephonic discussions, accessed by ANI, was sent at 3.46 pm, which was also read and acknowledged by the recipients.

(ANI)