The first rule of flight club is...

I admit to being a little bemused by the final paragraph in this news story taken from Travel Daily.

Passengers on an Air India flight understandably panicked last week when a mid-air scuffle broke out between the pilots and cabin crew.

Two pilots and two flight attendants have now been grounded following the incident on a flight from Sharjah to Delhi, in which one female crew member apparently accused a pilot of sexual harassment.

Despite the cockpit being abandoned as blows were exchanged, “at no stage was safety compromised,” said Air India.

So there's nobody in the cockpit, the entire crew is engaged in fisticuffs in the aisle and “at no stage was safety compromised”?

I take issue with that: who was indicating the location of emergency exits? Who was serving cardboard sarnies? And did the passengers have to pay extra for the privilege of watching an in-flight fight?

I'm also enchanted by the idea of the auto-pilot landing a virtual left-hook...