Video of bodybuilder smoking in SpiceJet flight surfaces online

Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Thursday ordered an investigation after a video showing bodybuilder Bobby Kataria smoking on a SpiceJet flight surfaced on social mediaThe video shows Kataria who has 63 lakh followers on Instagram lighting a cigarette on one of the back rows of a SpiceJet planePassengers are not allowed to take lighter in the plane Passengers are also not allowed to smoke in the planeSpiceJet said that the smoking incident took place in its DubaiDelhi flight on January 20 when passengers were boarding the plane and the cabin crew members were busy with completing the onboarding procedureAfter investigation the airline had put the passenger on no flying list for 15 days in February it mentionedAlso Read 9th incident in 40 days SpiceJets MumbaiKandla flight aborts take off as caution alert lights upAs per the regulations of aviation regulator DGCA an airline has the power to ban an unruly passenger for a certain period of time if he or she violates any rulesWhen the video of this incident was posted on Twitter on Thursday Scindia responded Investigating it There will be no tolerance towards such hazardous behaviourSources from the Central Industrial Security Force CISF said on Thursday that the video of this incident came to their knowledge in January this year and they had then written to the concerned airline and subsequently sent a complaint to the police in GurugramWe understand the police filed a complaint against him there in Gurugram one of the CISF source saidIn a statement SpiceJet said This is with reference to a video on social media of a passenger smoking onboard a SpiceJet aircraft The matter had been investigated thoroughly in January 2022 when the video was brought to our notice and a complaint had been filed by the airline with the Udyog Vihar Police Station in GurugramThe video the investigation had revealed was shot on January 20 2022 while passengers were boarding flight SG 706 scheduled to fly from Dubai to Delhi it saidThe said passenger and his copassengers shot the video on the 21st row when the cabin crew were occupied with completing the onboarding procedure None of the passengers or crew was aware of the act The matter came to the airlines notice on January 24 2022 through social media posts it saidThe matter was referred to the Internal Committee constituted as per the provisions of Civil Aviation Requirements CAR on handling of unruly passengers not consisting of any SpiceJet employee The said passenger was put on a no flying list by the airline for 15 days in February 2022 the carrier saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever