Air India Flyer on “Peeing” Shocker: “Begged Me… Said He’s a Family Man”
On November 26, Shankar Mishra allegedly opened the woman’s bag while intoxicated and peed on her. Until another passenger begged him to go back to his seat, he stood there baring himself.
Documents reveal that after an intoxicated passenger peed on a lady traveler in business class on an Air India trip last year, the crew compelled her to confront the man while he apologized and pleaded to be spared arrest.
On November 27, the day following the event on the aircraft from New York to Delhi, the woman wrote to N Chandrasekharan, the chairman of the Air India company. But according to the FIR (First Information Report) against the perpetrator, Mumbai businessman Shankar Mishra, Air India didn’t call the police until January 4 at noon.
The woman had retracted her call for his arrest, according to Air India, thus the company didn’t call the police all this time.
Police are searching for missing person Shankar Mishra. He is the subject of an airport warning.
On November 26, Shankar Mishra allegedly opened the woman’s bag while intoxicated and peed on her. Until another passenger begged him to go back to his seat, he stood there baring himself.
In the letter to Air India that is a part of the FIR, the woman described her “appalling experience.”
She claimed that after complaining to the crew about her seat, clothes, bag, and shoes being covered in urine, the flight staff “refused to touch them,” disinfected her bag and shoes, and provided her with a set of pyjamas and socks. She requested a different seat, but was informed that none were available despite another passenger reporting that there were.
The captain had “vetoed” assigning me a seat in first class, the passenger claimed, according to the flight crew.
On landing, the woman claims she immediately demanded Shankar Mishra’s arrest, but the crew instead informed her he wanted to apologies and brought him to her.
“I made it very clear that I didn’t want to talk to him or see his face; all I wanted was for him to be arrested when he got there. However, the crew forced us to sit next to each other in the crew seats and brought the offender in front of me against my will.
He began sobbing and apologising profusely to me, beseeching me not to file a complaint against him since he is a family man and did not want this incident to have an impact on his wife and child. I was taken aback by his sudden and dramatic change of heart.
Being forced to face and bargain with the horrifying incident’s perpetrator up close further confused me in my already confused state. I informed him his acts were unacceptable, but given his pleading and begging in my presence, as well as my own shock and trauma, I felt it difficult to demand his arrest or to file a police report.
The airline also gave Shankar Mishra her contact information so he could pay for her shoes and dry cleaning, which she later returned because she did not want his money.
She claimed in her letter that the Air India crew was “very unprofessional,” failed to ensure the security and dignity of passengers, lacked discretion in determining how much alcohol to give a passenger, and was passive in the face of a delicate and distressing situation.
In a letter to the crew, Air India CEO Campbell Wilson urged them to immediately report any inappropriate behaviour on flights, “even if the situation appears to have been settled.”
Mr. Wilson stated in the internal communication that “the aversion felt by the impacted passenger is absolutely comprehensible and we share her discomfort.”