Throwing Punches at 30,000 ft.

In-flight entertainment is getting better all the time. Who needs movies when you have the crew up front beating the living daylights out of one another? Much better than sitting through a boring movie that came out two months ago and has all the good parts clipped out.

Apparently, 106 passengers had ring-side seats for the altercation between crew members that spilled out of the cockpit and into the passenger cabin on Air India flight 884 from . In fact, it appears that the seeds for fisticuffs were sewn before takeoff. Odds were on the cockpit crew who had two males rather than the cabin attendants, but the attendants have since banded together and can be expected to have the upper hand in court. Getting their story straight and all that.

Now, its in the hands of the Indian police rather than the referees, to determine who did what to Ranbeer or Aditya. No comment has been made by any of the parties concerning what the rats who have been spotted on several Air India flights lately thought of the action. Also, its not a good story to have get out on the heels of Air India’s three day, 20,000 employee, hunger strike. Strong public opinion is growing that the only thing that can save Air India is privatization according to the Hindustan Times. "Privatize Air India before it's too late," warned a column in the Hindustan Times newspaper Sunday. "As long as the government runs Air India, it will continue to strangle it," columnist Vir Sanghvi wrote.

Coming from United Arab Emirates on it’s way to New Delhi, this all took place over Pakistan which is a bad place for an Indian aircraft to be without someone to respond on the radio. Paki’s and Indi’s do not get along all that well and flying over one another’s territory is tolerated but not comfortable.