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An airline is investigating after a crew member recorded video of two passengers engaging in ‘intimate acts’

An airline is investigating after a crew member recorded video of two passengers engaging in ‘intimate acts’

  • Two passengers performed “intimate acts” on a Swiss International flight from Bangkok to Zurich.

  • A flight crew member recorded video of the incident from a monitor in the cockpit.

  • Swiss said the crew should have intervened immediately and was investigating.

Airline crew members are under investigation after video of two passengers on a Swiss International Air Lines flight emerged on social media.

The incident took place last Friday on a flight from bangkok and Zurich, an airline spokesperson told Business Insider.

The spokesman said two passengers were in the front kitchen of the Boeing 777 near the flight deck, where the camera is located which allows pilots to carry out checks before opening the cockpit door.

From a screen on the flight deck, the couple was “observed performing intimate acts” while a crew member recorded them with a phone.

Images of the couple began circulating on WhatsApp and were obtained by Swiss newspaper 20 Minuten, which was the first to report the story.

The airline said it expected the crew to intervene immediately and found it “intolerable” that passengers were being filmed and commented on. Disciplinary action against the crew members was being considered.

“Recording people without their clear consent and sharing these recordings goes against our guidelines and values,” the Swiss spokesperson said.

“The behavior of the passengers in question was inappropriate; therefore, our employees should have acted in accordance with our protocols and intervened immediately,” they added. “Why the crew did not act accordingly is the subject of an ongoing investigation.”

Among other things, the airline plans to increase employee education and training on these issues to help prevent similar incidents in the future.

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