A Swiss Air flight. (Image for representation)
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A Swiss Air flight's crew has landed itself in trouble after a video of a couple joining the mile-high club went viral on social media.
The explicit act was caught on the cockpit-controlled security cameras of the Swiss Air passenger jet and was leaked online. The video has since gone viral.
The video, reportedly shot in November, shows the couple getting intimate inside the kitchen of Swiss Air's 12-hour-long Flight 181 flying from Bangkok to Zurich.
It is not yet clear how the footage got leaked and the incident has sparked widespread outrage over the conduct of the airlines staff as well as concern over passengers' privacy.
"A couple on board a recent Swiss Air flight from Bangkok to Zurich joined the mile-high club in the first-class galley while secretly being recorded by the pilots. The cockpit crew are now under investigation for sharing the footage on group chats which has since gone viral," wrote a user on X (formerly Twitter) sharing a screengrab of the viral video.
As per a Daily Mail report, Swiss Air officials are investigating the matter and have assured of strict action against the crew members who recorded the act without the passengers' consent and later posted it on social media.
"The filming of people without their clear consent as well as the transfer of these recordings contradict our guidelines and values and violate the applicable data protection regulations," the publication quoted Swiss Air media spokesperson Meike Fuhlrott as saying.
The spokesperson said that after spotting the couple in the galley, the crew should have "intervened directly" instead of filming the act.
She also denounced the derisive commentary on the couple on social media.
Fuhlrott also pointed out that the CCTV cameras on the planes were part of crew security measures that were installed after the 9/11 hijackings. "These are aimed at monitoring any attempts to break into the cockpit, rather than spying on passengers," she added.