Air Deccan Airline sues man for opening door
New Delhi: Low-cost airline Air Deccan filed a case against a passenger when he opened the emergency-exit door of the aircraft, reacting to the diversion of the Delhi-bound plane after over a day's delay due to fog.
Air Deccan has suffered $ 20,000 (around Rs 9 lakh) in damage and explained that the escape slide of the emergency door of the aircraft deflated after the incident.
The airline grounded the aircraft to do the necessary repair works. The airline will now have to replace it with a new one, officials said.
The aircraft had to be brought back to Mumbai as it could not land at Delhi due to poor weather conditions. When passengers were not allowed to deplane, a young passenger was noticed trying to open the emergency door, an airline spokesperson said.
The airlines has registered a case against the pasenger, Dheeraj Malhotra, with the airport police station for damaging its property, the spokesperson said.
Air Deccan has suffered $ 20,000 (around Rs 9 lakh) in damage and explained that the escape slide of the emergency door of the aircraft deflated after the incident.
The airline grounded the aircraft to do the necessary repair works. The airline will now have to replace it with a new one, officials said.
The aircraft had to be brought back to Mumbai as it could not land at Delhi due to poor weather conditions. When passengers were not allowed to deplane, a young passenger was noticed trying to open the emergency door, an airline spokesperson said.
The airlines has registered a case against the pasenger, Dheeraj Malhotra, with the airport police station for damaging its property, the spokesperson said.
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3 comments:
Serves Air Deccan right. they have cancelled so many of my flights I need to sue them
I fully agree and sympathise with the poor fellow (the passnger of course). There's a reason why people prefer to travel by air rather than by road or rail and thats the time of journey. Ailines need to be prepared for such conditions especially when technology to overcome them is available. Sometimes, a ticket from Air Deccan is only as good as a cheque for the same amount. Air Deccan really needs to be more responsible towards passengers and that does not mean cancellations at the slightest chance, but fixing their technical and other problems. I hope the passenger sues them for a lot of money, mental harrassment included. I mena, you have to be driven really really nutty for anyone to do something like that.
I wonder if and when Air Deccan sues him, he could defend himself by saying that since Air Deccan's total liability in any case due to cancellation is only a refund of the ticket price and not any other related or consequential damages, the only liability that should apply to him also is that he will not take a refund and let Air Deccan keep that price instead. Since Air Deccan says it's not responsible for any loss or damage caused to passengers in case of cancellation exceeding the ticket price, passengers could also say that for their actions which causes loss to Air Deccan, their liability should also be limited to the ticket price.
Dheeraj in my college, in fact, he's my classmate ! I wonder what weird bug bit his mind ?
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