Air India evacuates passengers for scuffle over AC obstacle

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More than 15 passengers of Air India bound to Abu Dhabi travelling on board an Air India Express plane were evacuated at Thiruvananthapuram airport while some of them passengers assaulted the cabin crew, tried to barged into the cockpit and kick open the aircraft door on Thursday evening.
Tempers begun to fly after a technical obstacle caused minor delay in take-off and AC made the aircraft cabin hot. The passengers’ ire reached the tipping point when a women flier, unable to deal with the heat, passed out on board. According to air sources, “Four passengers among those evacuated had turned extremely unruly. They were trying to enter the cockpit. When the crew tried to stop them a male purser was badly assaulted”. Sources added that while the airline decided to evacuate the four passengers, the others including women and a child also left the aircraft as they were related to the offenders. Sources said that the cooling inside the cabin was bad because the auxiliary power unit (APU) that was not working properly. The aircraft originally scheduled to leave for Abu Dhabi at 5.20pm left four hours behind schedule, officials added.
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