Wife died on board flight': NRI doctor to sue Air India for wrong call B S Anilkumar

[kakatiya]

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Dr Vinayakom, a reputed anaesthesiologist, settled in the US, got the shock of his life on Wednesday evening when an 

Air India

 official called him and told him that his wife has expired on board a flight to Washington DC from New Delhi. The 77-year-old doctor has now decided to sue the airline, as the information was wrong.

 

"A person who introduced himself as the manager of Air India office at New Delhi airport gave me an information that left me rattled and immobile for a few minutes at my home in 

Thiruvananthapuram

. The gentleman told me that my wife Dr Subba Laxmi has expired on board the flight. He passed me the contact number of one Tejbir Singh Colia, whom he introduced as the AI manager in Washington DC, and asked me to make arrangements for receiving the corpse from the flight," 

anaesthesiologist Dr Vinayakom

, who lives in Washington DC, told TOI.

 

The doctor couple, who had come home for vacation, were stuck here following the lockdown and Dr Subba Laxmi had left for the US alone. "I asked the gentleman again to verify whether it is the same Dr Subba Laxmi. I even told him her date of birth. He confirmed the news again," said Dr Vinayakom. "I managed to call 

the caretaker

 of our Washington DC home. The caretaker said my wife had telephoned her a few minutes ago, asking her to get her picked from the airport. I am surprised at the casual manner in which a wrong information about someone's death was passed on," he said.

 Vinayakom, who had taught in Georgetown University, has had several high profile patients, including former 

Kerala

 chief minister K 

Karunakaran

 when he was taken to the US for special treatment after a car accident in 1992. “I’ve decided to sue the airline heavily. The mental trauma and stress the false information gave me was beyond words,” he said.

 

The doctor said a woman had indeed died on board the flight and she had wrongly occupied the business class seat booked by Dr Subba Laxmi. “I presume that the AI staff had chosen to go by the contact number they got on the PNR code of the ticket. But, I fail to understand why they refused to have a relook at the passenger details even after several pleas,” he said.

 

Air India authorities said they would look into the complaint seriously and take appropriate steps once the flight crew is back from the US. “Right now, we don’t know what went wrong. Normally such messages from flying aircraft are communicated on the basis of the PNR code of the passenger on board. We have our sympathies for the aggrieved person; we will definitely look into the incident,” a spokesperson said.

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Welcome to Air India

[tom bhayya]

Sue chesina plead chesina peanuts kuda raavu 

[Anta Assamey]

3 minutes ago, tom bhayya said:

Sue chesina plead chesina peanuts kuda raavu 

Elagu loss lo undi money badulu oka flight ista pattuku po antaru emo ..

[PilliBeta]

7 minutes ago, Anta Assamey said:

Elagu loss lo undi money badulu oka flight ista pattuku po antaru emo ..

After vandemataram mission, they made a lot

[Dippindots]

[Daaarling]

I guess he is angry because it was false information

[KaipuRaja]

33 minutes ago, Daaarling said:

I guess he is angry because it was false information

Adi ardam aindi daaarling

[iddaritho]

when I was traveling in AI Chicago to Hyderabad 

the seat was broken where I sat , I called the air hostesses I told her it is not safe to sit in that seat 

 

she told this is maximum safety they can provide and if anything happens everyone will die 

I told her yeah it’s time for every one to die if we travel in AI and then called the head stewards and I said I refuse to sit in that chair and asked me to drop back in Chicago 

they did some talking eventually moved me to front row with leg room 

[kakatiya]

22 hours ago, iddaritho said:

when I was traveling in AI Chicago to Hyderabad 

the seat was broken where I sat , I called the air hostesses I told her it is not safe to sit in that seat 

 

she told this is maximum safety they can provide and if anything happens everyone will die 

I told her yeah it’s time for every one to die if we travel in AI and then called the head stewards and I said I refuse to sit in that chair and asked me to drop back in Chicago 

they did some talking eventually moved me to front row with leg room 

Business class adagalsindhi..front leg room bathroom stink 😛

[ARYA]

On 10/3/2020 at 6:07 PM, tom bhayya said:

Sue chesina plead chesina peanuts kuda raavu 

uncle monna economy lo poyinava Business aa..looks like business sarasamaina dhara lo vastundi

[tom bhayya]

18 minutes ago, ARYA said:

uncle monna economy lo poyinava Business aa..looks like business sarasamaina dhara lo vastundi

Ya sarasamaina dhara ney but worst , no service no beverage service nothing except for some comfort 

[ARYA]

58 minutes ago, tom bhayya said:

Ya sarasamaina dhara ney but worst , no service no beverage service nothing except for some comfort 

yeah anduke thinking at least in Bclass you have some spce for yourself rather than getting cramped with people

[tom bhayya]

2 minutes ago, ARYA said:

yeah anduke thinking at least in Bclass you have some spce for yourself rather than getting cramped with people

Try United business class adhi kuda sarasamaina dhara loney unnayi and full service undhi 

[ARYA]

1 minute ago, tom bhayya said:

Try United business class adhi kuda sarasamaina dhara loney unnayi and full service undhi