# Passenger and airline staff trade complaints over Hyderabad flight delay 2026-08-18T02:36:42+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet A 29-year-old passenger flying with his cancer-patient mother from Hyderabad to Bagdogra was deboarded from a flight on Sunday after an argument over a delay of four minutes. The airline staff alleged the passenger broke a galley glass partition with his elbow, causing damage worth over Rs1 lakh, and assaulted security personnel. The flight, 6E6872, was delayed from 8.15 am to 9.43 am. Both sides have filed complaints. The airline registered a case against the passenger under sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, including voluntarily causing hurt and mischief. The passenger, a PG student from Bihar, countered that the crew responded rudely when he queried the delay, and that airline staff assaulted him with a glass object and forcibly removed him, distressing his mother. RGI Airport police have registered two FIRs and said notices will be issued to the accused. The Times of India reports that the passenger had been denied boarding days earlier for being late by 10 minutes. ## Coverage - timesofindia.indiatimes.com This story was synthesised by AI from the source linked above. Tags: Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bihar, CISF, Hyderabad Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/passenger-and-airline-staff-trade-complaints-over-hyderabad-flight-delay/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/passenger-and-airline-staff-trade-complaints-over-hyderabad-flight-delay/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes. How this brief was made: an AI model read the report linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/