CHENNAI: Airline cabin crew may be doing their best to ensure that passengers exit the flight “swiftly” on landing, but the crew of an Air India flight from Dubai never imagined this would happen. A 28-year-old man — who had ignored instructions and had been standing near the door as the flight taxied toward an aerobridge — yanked the plane’s door open and slid down the emergency chute. The reason? Kamal Basha from Tiruchy had apparently complained of the heat and how it made him “sweat”, before leaping, according to extremely harried airline officials.AI 906’s cabin crew and the 145 passengers on board were shocked and feared the worst as the plane quickly ground to a halt on the tarmac. “Thanks to the chute he was relatively unhurt,” said a CISF official. The flight had landed at the Chennai International Airport at 5.15 am.After the CISF put Basha through an intense four-hour-long interrogation for fear of terrorist links, he was handed over to the airport police. His mother and uncle, who were awaiting his arrival, were shocked to see him being escorted out of the terminal into the police station. According to the police, despite the crew’s claim that he seemed “mentally disturbed”, he was fairly normal. “He even told us that he hadn’t slept for four days. He admitted that his father...sent him back home for treatment because he had been laid off from work for erratic behaviour,” an official said. He has been remanded to judicial custody.
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