I was just reading about a row between a member of Parliament, Abdul Wahab, and the captain of an Indian airplane, Rajat Rana.
I have no idea of what the rights and wrongs of the situation are. Considering that we spend much of our time engaged in unrestrained sycophancy, I find interesting that in the comments in response to this story on the Times of India website, not one person seemed to support the MP. The one commenter who said that the pilot was in the wrong said:
vijayamohan,coimbatore,says: The pilot’s action was totally unjustified. His writ runs only while the plane is airborne. Technically, the correct procedure would be to offload the MP in midflight (preferrably without a parachute)
[9 Apr, 2008 1213hrs IST]
The MP’s side of the story:
“I arrived at the airport well ahead of the schedule departure of the flight at 8.55 am. But the flight which was coming from Doha was delayed. Around 9 am, the duty manager escorted me and my wife to the aircraft. Mr Rana who was waiting at the ladder shouted at the manager for delaying the flight, alleging he was bringing in passengers late. His anger wouldn’t ebb even after I had taken my seat inside the plane. … It was at this point I decided to intervene. Mr Rana then told me it was none of my business. I replied he was only a glorified driver and shouldn’t equate himself with a people’s representative. He became furious and called up the duty manager to get me off the plane. As I didn’t want to cause any inconvenience to co-passengers, I decided to get down.”
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/MP_offloaded_from_plane/articleshow/2936142.cms
(As far as I know, the pilot hasn’t made a public statement. And, incidentally, as someone pointed out, the pilot would have had to shout to be heard over the engine noise.)
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