With viral videos of frenzied mediapersons violating safety and social distancing protocols onboard a Chandigarh-Mumbai flight that had actor Kangana Ranaut as a passenger on September 9, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has sought a report from IndiGo.
“We have seen some videos wherein mediapersons are standing too close to each other in the 6E264 flight on Wednesday. It seems to be a violation of safety and social distancing protocols. We have asked IndiGo to submit a report on this incident,” a DGCA official said.
The IndiGo flight, 6E 264, which took off from Chandigarh on its scheduled time at around 12 noon, landed in Mumbai at around 2.15 pm on September 9. The flight had Ranaut on board, along with her sister, Rangoli, who has been in the news over the past few days after she had an argument with one of the members of Parliament (MPs) on social media.
The airline said it has responded. IndiGo said its own crew followed all protocol on that flight. “We are committed to providing a safe, hassle-free experience to our passengers,” it added.
The media chaos intensified as Mumbai’s civic agency started demolishing what it called illegal alterations to her office even when she was on her way. Anticipating drama, the media followed her journey to Mumbai.
In January, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri had tweeted that “offensive behavior designed to provoke and create disturbance inside an aircraft is absolutely unacceptable and endangers safety of air travellers”.