DGCA recommends ‘Handcuff-like device’ to control unruly passengers on board

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) advisory recommends keeping handcuff-like devices to control unruly passengers on board. A senior DGCA official said that they recommend devices kept in aircraft cabins used to restrain unruly passengers of level 3 type i.e abusive physically violent category.

The device looks like a handcuff. Equipment for the help of cabin crew. Some airlines in India like Air Asia are keeping it in the aircraft cabin. He further said that Applying restraining devices should be used when all conciliatory approaches have been exhausted.

Civil Aviation Rule (CAR) makes cabin crew responsible for informing the passenger of the repercussion and consequences of such unruly behaviour. The advisory comes in wake of a passenger urinating on a woman on an Air India flight.