Vapeboss – On airplanes, smoking is prohibited to avoid undesirable incidents. Besides cigarettes, vapes are also not allowed to be used on planes. So, what if the person violating these rules is the flight crew or cabin crew themselves?

Reported by Express UK, the person who caught them was a private detective, Mike Georgantis. He was traveling on Air New Zealand at the time. Mike was sitting next to his wife on a flight from Wellington to Napier, New Zealand.

Once the plane was airborne, Mike and his wife were sitting relaxed. Coincidentally, because they had seats at the front, Mike saw a flight attendant sitting with the curtain deliberately closed. Actually, Mike didn't want to know what the flight attendant was doing behind the closed curtain.

However, the flight attendant's movements looked suspicious. The flight attendant took out a small object from her pocket and inhaled from it. When inhaled, the object glowed, and the flight attendant exhaled vapor from her mouth. From that, Mike concluded that the flight attendant was vaping.

"I saw the flight attendant inhale the vape three times, there was even a blue light that lit up when she inhaled it," Mike said, quoted from Stuff.

After vaping, the flight attendant immediately drank plain water to eliminate the smell. Of course, this shocked Mike and his wife; as soon as the plane landed, they immediately submitted a complaint to the airline.

The airline confirmed that Air New Zealand received the complaint and an investigation would be launched immediately.

"Immediate action would be taken if she did it on every flight. I'm sure she does it on every flight," he said.

A Civil Aviation Authority spokesperson said the penalty for violating section 65N of the Civil Aviation Act for smoking or vaping on a flight is a fine of up to USD 2,500.

Source: Detik Travel