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SCMP’s Asia desk

Air India and officials are investigating a bizarre incident in which a business class passenger reportedly urinated on another traveller.
The case centred on flight AI2336 from New Delhi to Bangkok, despite the cabin’s lavatories being fully functional, local media reported.
According to NDTV, the 24-year-old Indian national was drunk when he stood up and relieved himself on a Japanese businessman seated near him. Another passenger next to the businessman was also affected.
Senior cabin crew members responded by providing towels for clean-up and escorting the Japanese passenger to the lavatory to change his clothes. The perpetrator was relocated to another seat.
Crew members offered to help the affected passenger file a formal complaint with Bangkok authorities, but he declined, The Indian Express reported.
Following the incident, Air India issued a statement confirming it had reported the matter to India’s civil aviation safety regulator.
Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu said authorities would investigate, adding that “if there is any wrongdoing, we will take necessary action”.
Air India also announced the formation of an independent committee to review the situation and determine if disciplinary actions should be taken against the accused passenger.

This is not the first case of a passenger urinating on another traveller, with alcohol consumption often a contributing factor.
In November 2022, a drunk man unzipped his pants and urinated on a woman in her 70s, in the business class cabin of another Air India flight.
The crew reportedly provided her with a change of clothes but told her to return to her soiled seat, claiming no other seat was available, according to NDTV.
Air India only filed a police complaint against that man and recommended putting the unruly passenger on a no-fly list after the woman wrote to the chairman of Tata Group, which owns the airline.
According to The Thaiger, the airline also grounded the cabin crew involved, and CEO Campbell Wilson pledged to overhaul its response to in-flight misconduct, vowing to establish a “robust reporting system” for future incidents.
In March 2023, a drunk student relieved himself on a male passenger on an American Airlines flight bound for Delhi.
More recently, a man was reportedly banned from United Airlines after he urinated on a fellow business class passenger on a flight from San Francisco to Manila in December 2024.


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