According to Delhi police, the passenger, identified as Ajay Kumar Bana, was set to travel from Delhi to Bengaluru on an Air India flight, was detained on Tuesday at the Delhi Airport in possession of 19 live cartridges.
Air India, in an official statement issued on Tuesday, said that the airline follows a zero-tolerance policy for such unruly and unacceptable behaviour.
A man travelling on a Mumbai-Delhi Air India flight was arrested at the airport here for allegedly defecating and urinating on his co-passenger, officials said.
The City of Mississauga office lowered its flags at half-mast on Friday in honour of the 38th anniversary of the 1985 terrorist attack on Air India Flight 182 that killed 329 passengers, most of whom were Canadians.
The Indian High Commission in Ottawa called the "tragedy" as the worst ever in Canadian aviation history and stressed that it shall remain an unbearable loss for the family of the victims and humanity as a whole.
In an official statement, CISF said that the arrested accused was identified as Karibil Haque, an Indian national, who arrived from Dubai on an Air India flight.
"Air India has a Just Culture approach to all safety-related events and has zero tolerance for deliberate breaches of regulations. Such breaches are dealt with on a serious basis and sanctions will be imposed on those who are in breach of the regulations," an Air India spokesperson said in a
"Air India flight AI180, scheduled to operate from San Francisco (SFO) to Mumbai (BOM) on June 8, 2023, was cancelled due to an unforeseen technical issue. Affected guests have been offered the option of alternative flights or a full refund for the cancelled flight," Air India Spokesperso
Air India has said that it will refund journey fare and provide a voucher for future travel to passengers who were stranded for nearly two days in Magadan after their New Delhi-San Francisco flight was diverted to the Russian city following a technical snag in one of its engines
Earlier, on Tuesday, a Delhi-San Francisco Air India flight was diverted to Russia's Magadan due to an engine glitch, the airline said, adding that the flight landed safely in Russia.