The post on X quickly gained traction, with users amused by the Air India engineer’s dramatic phrasing. 'The Bhagat Singh of cockroaches,' one user joked.
Suyesha Savant wrote about the incident on X and it prompted a response from the airlines. Air India asked for her booking details and said that the matter would be investigated.
'When we went to the pantry car to complain, we saw that the food was being prepared right next to the dustbin and there were live cockroaches crawling around,' Mumbai-based businessman Rikki Jeswani, who was returning from Shirdi with his family on the Vande Bharat train, told Moneycontrol.
IndiGo acknowledged the unclean conditions and ensured immediate cleaning of the entire fleet and conducting fumigation and disinfection procedures.
'Ordered Japanese miso ramen chicken from Auntie Fug's and found a cockroach in my meal!' wrote Zomato customer Sonai Acharya.
The detonation, which left the man with minor injuries, was so forceful that it shattered a balcony window.
The passenger was travelling from Bhopal to Gwalior when the incident happened.
The official, who was traveling on an Air India flight from New York to New Delhi, wrote on his Twitter handle about the presence of cockroaches and the absence of entertainment/call buttons/reading lights on the flight
The cockroach is then fed to an animal.