An airline is investigating after a crew member recorded video of 2 passengers engaged in 'intimate acts'

• Two passengers appeared to engage in "intimate acts" on a Swiss International flight to Zurich.

• A flight crew member took a video of the incident from a monitor in the cockpit.

• The airline said the crew should have intervened immediately and that it was investigating.

Airline crew members are under investigation after a video of two passengers on a Swiss International Air Lines flight appeared on social media.

A Swiss international spokesperson told Business Insider that on a November 29 flight from Bangkok to Zurich, crew members observed two passengers "engaging in intimate acts."

The passengers were in the front galley of the Boeing 777 near the flight deck. Planes typically have cameras throughout and pilots and crew members can monitor the video footage from the cockpit.

A crew member apparently used a phone to record the couple from a monitor on the flight deck, the airline said.

Footage of the couple then began circulating on WhatsApp and was obtained by the Swiss newspaper 20 Minuten, which first reported the story.

The airline said it expected the crew to intervene immediately and found it "intolerable" that the passengers were filmed instead. The airline is considering disciplinary action against the crew members.

"Filming people without their clear consent and sharing these recordings is contrary to our guidelines and values," the spokesperson said.

"The behavior of the passengers in question was inappropriate — therefore, our employees should have acted in line with our protocols and intervened immediately," they added. "Why the crew did not act accordingly is the subject of the ongoing investigation."

The airline said it planned to increase employee education and training to avoid similar incidents in the future.

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