India couple rent plane for midair wedding to escape COVID curbs

Couple charter passenger jet to stage midair wedding that violated COVID-19 restrictions by taking more than 160 guests.

An Indian couple has chartered a passenger jet to stage a midair wedding that violated coronavirus restrictions by taking more than 160 guests, reports said. India’s civil aviation authority has ordered an investigation and suspended the crew of the jet, officials said on Monday. Because of a brutal new coronavirus wave that saw India’s death toll passed 300,000 on Monday, most states only allow 50 guests at weddings but 161 friends and family of the newlyweds were on the jet on Sunday.