- Saturday, March 01, 2025
By: Shubham Ghosh
Indian carrier Air India has been in the news for a number of wrong reasons in the recent past, including a male passenger allegedly urinating on an elderly woman co-flier on board an international flight from New York to New Delhi last November.
Last month, the carrier witnessed yet another untoward incident and this time, it is not any unruly passenger but a scorpion that stung a female passenger on board a domestic flight going from Nagpur to Mumbai in the western state of Maharashtra last month.
In a statement released by the airline on Saturday (6), the passenger was attended by a doctor and subsequently treated at a hospital and discharged.
Air India said there was an “extremely rare and unfortunate incident involving a scorpion biting a passenger on board our flight AI 630 on April 23, 2023”.
According to the airline, it followed the protocol and conducted a complete inspection of the aircraft and found the scorpion after which a due fumigation process was carried out.
Following the incident, Air India asked the catering department to advise dry cleaners to check their facilities for any bed bugs infestation and if necessary, carry out fumigation of the facilities as there is a possibility of bugs finding their way into the aircraft through the supplies, an Air India official told the PTI.
Earlier also, there have been instances of reptiles being found onboard aircraft.
In December last year, a snake was found in the cargo hold of an Air India Express plane from Calicut in the southern state of Kerala after it landed in Dubai.
(With PTI inputs)
