Australian cricketer David Warner faced a significant delay on an Air India flight in Bengaluru. Passengers were boarded despite the absence of pilots. Air India cited challenging weather conditions and crew delays from earlier flights as reasons for the disruption. Warner expressed frustration over the incident, questioning why passengers were boarded without pilots present.
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00:00Australian cricketer's harrowing Air India experience, David Warner, boards Air India
00:07plane waits for hours.
00:09Warner says, boarded a plane with no pilots, he asked why board passengers if there's no
00:14pilot.
00:15Air India has issued a statement over the delay saying that there was challenging weather
00:18conditions in Bengaluru which caused a delay.
00:21They said diversions and delays across the airlines.
00:24That is what Air India has said after putting out a statement.
00:28Air India has also put out a statement saying crew was held up on earlier flights which
00:33is why delay took place.
00:34My colleague Nagarjun Dwarkanath is joining me on the phone line with more details.
00:41Nagarjun, David Warner has hit out at Air India over a certain delay that has taken
00:45place at the Bengaluru airport and Air India has put out a statement saying that there
00:50were certain weather conditions that caused the delay.
00:53What more can you tell us on this story?
00:57David Warner yesterday was in Bengaluru and when he boarded the flight there were no pilots
01:03is what he was told and the passengers were all on board.
01:06They were told to be on board and they were not be boarded.
01:10The delay that caused pilots not being in the cockpit made the passengers to be on board
01:15for a few hours is what we are told.
01:17This disruption was caused due to the rain in Bengaluru yesterday.
01:21The incoming flights were disrupted and hence the pilots could not make it on time is what
01:25the Air India statement says.
01:27Thanks Nagarjun for bringing us those details on that story.
01:29David Warner hitting out at Air India for having to wait in within the flight for hours
01:34because of no pilot being there.