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| Air India has grounded the crew of an Indian Airlines Airbus after airline staffers traded blows in the cockpit and the aisles during a flight from Sharjah, UAE, to Delhi on Oct. 3.
The cabin crew alleged that the pilots harassed a 24-year-old female stewardess, who filed a molestation complaint with the police after the flight landed in Delhi. The pilots, in turn, accused a male flight purser of physical assault that compromised flight safety, charging the molestation allegation was trumped up by the stewardess to protect her purser friend. Air India said the mid air scuffle did not endanger the 106 passengers on board and that “the cockpit was not left unmanned at any stage of the flight.” |