Patna: A full scale anti-hijacking mock drill was conducted at the Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan International Airport here on Saturday.
Airport director Rajendar Singh Lahauria said the air traffic control (ATC) raised an alarm of hijacking around 10:45am after which state's principal secretary (home) Amir Subhani and other senior government officials were informed and they rushed to the airport soon.
He said IG (special branch) J S Gangwar, IG (Patna zone) Naiyar Husnain Khan, IG (ATS) Sunil Kumar Jha, DIG (central range) Shalin, SSP (Patna) Manu Maharaaj, CISF commandant (airport) Dharmaveer Yadav and several other state government officials were inside the anti-hijacking control room of the airport to deal with the situation.
CISF commandant Yadav said it was for the first time that linguists and psychiatrists were also called in the control room as a mandatory part of the airport committee which get activated with the presence of state home secretary and other officials at the anti-hijacking control room which also contains a hotline. "Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Tamil, French and some other linguists were part of the committee for the first time," said Yadav, adding that altogether seven linguists were present during Saturday's drill to communicate with hijackers.
23/07/16 Debashish Karmakar/Times of India
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Airport director Rajendar Singh Lahauria said the air traffic control (ATC) raised an alarm of hijacking around 10:45am after which state's principal secretary (home) Amir Subhani and other senior government officials were informed and they rushed to the airport soon.
He said IG (special branch) J S Gangwar, IG (Patna zone) Naiyar Husnain Khan, IG (ATS) Sunil Kumar Jha, DIG (central range) Shalin, SSP (Patna) Manu Maharaaj, CISF commandant (airport) Dharmaveer Yadav and several other state government officials were inside the anti-hijacking control room of the airport to deal with the situation.
CISF commandant Yadav said it was for the first time that linguists and psychiatrists were also called in the control room as a mandatory part of the airport committee which get activated with the presence of state home secretary and other officials at the anti-hijacking control room which also contains a hotline. "Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Tamil, French and some other linguists were part of the committee for the first time," said Yadav, adding that altogether seven linguists were present during Saturday's drill to communicate with hijackers.
23/07/16 Debashish Karmakar/Times of India
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