Man receives flying ban; Air India fined after urinating incident

Air India has been imposed a four-month flying ban on a man for urinating on a passenger. Shankar Mishra was involved in the urinating incident on 26th November 2022.

The airline has also today been fined ₹ 30 lakh and the licence of the pilot-in-charge suspended for three months by the aviation regulator Director General of Civil Aviation.

A penalty of ₹ three lakh has also been imposed on director-in-flight services of Air India for “failing to discharge her duties” by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).

“We’re also strengthening our crews’ awareness of and compliance with policies on handling of incidents involving unruly passengers,” Air India said in a statement today.

Shankar Mishra has denied all the charges against him and claimed that the woman “urinated on herself”. The allegations have been dismissed by the woman as “completely false and concocted and by their very nature are disparaging and derogatory”.