In yet another case of in-flight inappropriate behaviour, an Air India passenger is said to have urinated on a fellow male passenger on Wednesday while travelling business class in an Air India Flight AI 2336 en route from Delhi to Bangkok.
According to sources, the victim is said to be a senior executive from a large company, and the erring passenger reportedly apologised for his action.
The latest case has revived memories of a similar incident that occurred in 2022 when Mumbai resident Shankar Mishra had allegedly urinated on an elderly co-passenger woman on a New York-Delhi Air India flight on November 26 that year.
In a statement, Air India said that an incident of “unruly passenger behaviour” was reported on its Delhi-Bangkok flight on April 9 and the matter was reported to authorities (DGCA).
Asked about the incident, Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu said said his ministry will take note and speak to the airline. “If there is any wrongdoing, we will take necessary action,” Naidu said on the sidelines of an event in the national capital.
The airline issued a statement confirming the incident and said that the crew followed all laid-down procedures. “Air India confirms that an incident of unruly passenger behaviour was reported to the cabin crew operating flight AI2336 from Delhi to Bangkok on April 9, 2025. The crew followed all laid-down procedures, and the matter reported to the authorities,” it said in the statement.
Air India said the accused was warned by the crew, and the victim — said to be an employee of a prominent multinational company — was assisted in taking up the grievance with Bangkok authorities.
“In addition to warning the unruly passenger, our crew offered to assist the aggrieved passenger to take up a grievance with authorities in Bangkok, which was declined at the time. The standing Independent Committee will be convened to assess the incident and determine the action, if any, to be taken against the unruly passenger. Air India continues to follow the SOPs as laid out by DGCA in such matters,” the statement added.
On November 26, 2022, an inebriated Shankar Mishra urinated on the woman co-passenger on an Air India flight from New York to Delhi. Mishra worked as a vice president for Wells Fargo in India, a multinational financial services corporation headquartered in California.
Mishra was charged with sexual harassment and obscenity by Delhi Police in January 2023. After he was booked for the act, the airline barred him from flying for 30 days.
Ten days later, another similar episode was reported on a Paris-New Delhi flight, where a “drunk” male passenger allegedly urinated on a female passenger’s blanket.
In June 2023, an Air India passenger on a Mumbai-Delhi flight was detained for allegedly defecating and urinating on the floor of the in-flight plane.