A complaint was immediately lodged with the Airport Police by Air India strictly adhering to the laid down security protocols, an Air India Spokesperson said without providing additional details of the incident.
Singapore's Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen said that the Air India Express flight safely landed at Singapore Changi Airport around 10.04 PM.
The plane, en route from New Delhi to Birmingham, landed safely without any injuries to all 258 passengers and 17 crew members.
A few days ago, the National Human Rights Commission also issued a notice to DGCA asking what steps have been taken or proposed to be taken to ensure that such incidents do not recur.
Details about the number of passengers onboard could not be immediately ascertained.
The pilot-in-command was also informed of the situation. A message was sent to the company immediately seeking security on arrival to escort the passenger.
According to an Air India official, the flight landed safely in Russia.
The statutory body did not reveal the identity of the man involved in the incident but added that prima facie "it was opened accidentally".
The passenger took to the social media platform to complain about her recent trip wherein she found a stone while travelling from an Air India flight (AI 215) from Delhi to Kathmandu.
According to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA)-- a regulatory body-- two incidents occurred on a Paris-New Delhi flight on December 6, last year, where two passengers misbehaved with their co-passenger.
Notably, Mishra is the vice president of the India Chapter of an American multinational financial services company headquartered in California.
The passenger posted a photo on Twitter showing bedbug bites on her arm which she claimed developed during the flight.
Air India is facing financial woes and has delayed payment of salaries to its employees for the month of May. However, the payment is likely to be made on June 15.
Air India is not going to get a safe landing at least not in this case where their staff has been accused of miss-treating passengers.It was an all chaos situation on February 16 at Mumbai's
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