The Congress on Tuesday accused Bharatiya Janata Party MP Tejasvi Surya of putting the lives of his co-passengers in danger after reports emerged that he had opened the emergency exit door of an IndiGo aircraft as it was about to take off from Chennai on December 10.
On Tuesday, news website South First quoted an unidentified passenger on the flight alleging that the BJP Yuva Morcha chief did so on a Chennai-Tiruchirappalli flight. Surya, along with the BJP’s Tamil Nadu unit chief K Annamalai, was seated next to one of the emergency exits on the first row of the aircraft.
“The cabin crew gave them a special briefing meant for the emergency row,” the passenger said, according to South First. “After the briefing, the two started talking to each other and in a quick moment, MP Tejasvi Surya placed his hand on the lever as if holding a gripping handle of a car and pulled it down. The emergency exit door came undone.”
The incident reportedly took place when the plane was taxiing towards the runway before take off at the Chennai airport.
As the media reports emerged on Tuesday, IndiGo and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation confirmed the incident more than a month after it took place, but did not identify…
