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Fight inside flight cockpit at Chennai airport

By:  Tupaki Desk   |   17 Jan 2015 9:10 AM GMT
Fight inside flight cockpit at Chennai airport
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In a shocking incident a pilot of a US-bound Air India flight from Chennai involved in a fight inside cockpit with the engineer. The pilot named Manicklal allegedly assaulted engineer Kannan inside the cockpit of Chennai-Paris flight AI 143 at Chennai airport .

The pilot allegedly involves in verbal war with the ground engineer before takeoff and the former assaulted a ground engineer.The flight which carrying 122 passengers delayed its departure by around three hours. The flight which was scheduled to take off at 8.45 AM left for its destination at around 11.45 AM due to the ruckus.

The flight reportedly developed a technical snag.Though the engineer rectified the issue, the pilot was not convinced and refused to take off. This caused argument between them and turned into brawl.The engineer suffered minor injuries on chin and he was provided with first aid.Air India has ordered a probe into the incident and investigations are underway.