MULTAN, July 4th: A female passenger with her two
children was travelling to Multan from Karachi by PIA’s flight PK-580. She
lodged a complaint of suffocation in the plane because air-conditioning system
was not functioning properly.In stead of placating the passenger, the staff
started to harass her. Then she made picture of passengers using newspapers as
fans to beat the heat. As the news reached to the captain/pilot of this plane, he
infuriated and he threatened her for dire consequence. As the plane landed at
Multan airport, Pilot left the plane and went to Airport Security force and
asked them to take the female passenger and her children in their custody. Pilot
refused to take off the plane back to Karachi till the arrest of the woman. He
lodged a written complaint against the woman to Cantonment Police. But police refused
to take action because incident took place in the air between Karachi-Multan. After
it, the woman also lodged a complaint against the pilot for committing the offence
of harassment. No case was registered so far against any one and ASF let the
passenger go. Official sources said here today that female passenger was
neither taken into custody by ASF nor arrested by the police and no case has
yet been registered. However, other passengers have protested on the rowdyism
of the pilot who quarreled with a woman and misbehaved with her. They demanded
an exemplary action against him who delayed the plane for three hours at Multan
airport and flately refused to take off till the arrest of female passenger.
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