Female Passenger Booked for Biting Airline Crew Member in Lucknow

Lucknow: A female passenger was booked for biting an airline ground crew member at the Lucknow airport. She was to board a flight for Mumbai on Tuesday evening.

The incident happened when passengers of flight QP 1525 were boarding the plane, which was to take off at 5:25 pm.

According to police sources, the woman was stressed and not in sound mind. When a crew member tried to calm her down, when she got engaged in a heated argument with fellow passengers after boarding the flight, she got angry and started to misbehave.

The ground staff was called to deboard her. While being deboarded from the plane by the airline ground crew, the woman bit a male crew member on the wrist.

Then the personnel of the CISF were called and she was taken to the police station at the Lucknow airport for legal action. She was booked under IPC Sections 324 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 504 (breach of peace).

The erring woman passenger is from Agra, but lives in Mumbai. She had visited Lucknow to meet her sister. Following the lodging of the FIR, the woman was sent to her relatives.