A 36-year-old doctor was arrested on Tuesday after causing trouble on an Air India flight from Bengaluru to Surat. She reportedly threatened to crash the plane when the cabin crew stopped her from placing her bags in a restricted area near their cabin. Because of the incident, the flight was delayed by two hours and caused a security scare. The woman, named Vyas Hiral Mohanbhai from Shivanahalli near Yehlahanka, was traveling alone on AI Flight IX2749 with two bags.
According to the police, the Ayurvedic doctor skipped the check-in counter and insisted on taking both of her bags with her onto the plane. The problem got worse after she boarded the flight and left one bag near the crew cabin while taking the other to her seat, 20F.
Onboard Drama as Passenger Threatens Crew Over Luggage Issue
When the cabin crew asked her to put her bag in the overhead compartment near her seat, she said no and told them to keep it instead. Even after the crew and later the captain asked her many times, she refused and started shouting at them. Other passengers also tried to talk to her, but she yelled at them too. At one point, she even said she would crash the plane if the crew touched her bag.
As the situation got worse, the captain called security and asked CISF officers for help. They came on board and took her off the plane. The incident happened between 2:45 pm and 5:30 pm, according to a complaint by Agnimitra Bahinipati, the associate manager of security at KIA.
Police said Mohanbhai didn’t stop there. At the KIA police station, she kept shouting at and even pushed the officers, causing more trouble. A senior officer said, “This was the first time we heard such abusive language in the station.”
Her husband, who works at a school or college in the city and is from Odisha, came to the police station. He told police that Mohanbhai had stopped working as a doctor and was going to Gujarat to visit her family. He also said she had caused problems in public places before. Police are now checking her background and looking into past incidents.