Man urinates, defecates on floor of Air India flight, held

• The police has filed an FIR against a man named Ram Singh for defecating and urinating on the floor of a Mumbai-Delhi Air India flight.
• The incident is said to have taken place onboard flight AIC 866 on June 24.
• This comes six months after Air India put a 30-day travel ban on a passenger after he urinated on a woman.

Incidents of mid-air urination by passengers continue to recur despite action taken by authorities and the police. Six months after Air India put a 30-day travel ban on a passenger after he urinated on a woman, the police has filed a First Information Report (FIR) against a man named Ram Singh for defecating and urinating on the floor of a Mumbai-Delhi Air India flight. The police said the incident took place onboard flight AIC 866 on June 24.

The nuisance caused by a man on an Air India flight from New York in December last year is clearly not a one-off incident. Last November, a business class passenger had “exposed himself” and urinated on a lady passenger on an Air India flight from New York to Delhi. Ten days later, another episode of a "drunk" male passenger allegedly "urinating" on a blanket of a female passenger was reported on Air India's Paris-New Delhi flight.

In the latest episode of mid-air defecation, the FIR says that Ram Singh defecated, urinated and spat in row nine of the aircraft. Upon observing the "misconduct", the cabin crew warned the passenger and secluded him from the others, it said.

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. The act left several of the passengers agitated, the FIR stated.

Upon arrival, the head of Air India security escorted the passenger to the local police station, it said, adding that a case under IPC sections 294 (obscene acts) and 510 (misconduct in public by a drunken person) has been registered.