A day after DGCA issued an order that it will suspend a flight for two weeks if anybody was found doing photography inside, the civil aviation regulator on Sunday clarified that passengers can take photo and videos inside flights but they cannot use any recording equipment that creates chaos, disrupts flight operations, violates safety norms or is banned by the crew members.

DGCA order on Sunday “clarified that a bona fide passenger travelling in an aircraft engaged in scheduled air transport services may do still and video photography from inside such an aircraft while in flight; take-off and landing” as per its circular dated December 9, 2004.

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The order further said that the permission does not include the use of “any recording equipment which imperils or compromises air safety; violates prevalent norms; creates chaos or disruption during operation of a flight or expressly prohibited by crew.” The DGCA’s order said action may be initiated against those persons, who will be found in violation of the issued guidelines.

The clarification by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) comes after the recent chaos caused by the media person on a plane from Chandigarh to Mumbai in which actor Kangana Ranaut was flying. According to a video surfaced on social media, reporters and camerapersons, while allegedly violating safety and social-distancing protocols, were jostling and bunching up to get a comment from Ranaut, who was sitting in one of the front rows of the plane on September 9.

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The DGCA had issued an order on Saturday that said, “It has been decided that from now on, in case any violation (photography) occurs on any scheduled passenger aircraft – the schedule of flight for that particular route shall be suspended for a period of two weeks from the next day (of the incident).”

Ranaut had been caught in a war of words with the Shiv Sena, the ruling party of Maharashtra, after the ‘Queen’ actor compared Mumbai to Pakistan occupied Kashmir, offending party leader Sanjay Raut.

She arrived in Mumbai on September 9, the day a team of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) demolished the alterations at Ranaut’s bungalow in Pali Hill, allegedly made without the civic body’s approval.