Air India pilots, crew slug it out at 30,000 feet
A mid-air brawl broke out between pilots and cabin crew on an Air India flight, prompting an investigation into the row, the airline said Sunday.

The tiff began in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates but escalated as the Airbus A-320 approached Delhi as the fighting spilled out from the ****pit into the plane’s galley to the surprise of its 106 passengers, the Times of India reported

One of the female crew members, who apparently made an announcement that was not up to par from the pilot’s point of view, alleged the pilots sexually harassed her.

The pilots in turn accused a male crew member, who went in to see what had happened to his colleague, of misconduct that compromised flight safety.

The paper said unconfirmed reports suggested the ****pit of the Airbus A-320 was left unmanned at one point, and one of the pilots threatened to divert the plane to Pakistan after comparing the situation to a hijacking.

http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/10/04/86910.html

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