New Delhi, Aug. 12 -- Five Members of Parliament (MPs), including KC Venugopal of the Congress party, wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Tuesday over the incident of a Thiruvananthapuram-Delhi flight they were travelling in being diverted to Chennai and demanded action on the alleged "breach of privilege" by Air India.

Venugopal, party colleagues K Suresh, Adoor Prakash, and Robert Bruce, along with CPI(M)'s K Radhakrishnan, also wrote to Civil Aviation Minister Rammohan Naidu and demanded an immediate investigation into the incident.

In their letter to Birla, the five MPs said they wanted to bring to his attention the matter involving a "grave breach of privilege" by Air India, arising from events on Flight AI 2455 (Thiruvananthapu...