Bag of clothes lost on flight turns up inside Sahar terminal

Mumbai: Airport officials at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International terminal are intrigued by the way a bag that went missing from a London-Mumbai flight turned up the next day in the terminal building.
On August 13, at 8.30 pm, the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel raised an alarm when they saw a black suitcase lying near a pillar at gate number two of terminal 2A.
“The suitcase was lying unattended for half an hour and nobody saw anyone come to pick it up, which made the CISF guards suspicious,” says an airport official. The guards informed airport officials, who found a Jet Airways tag and the mobile number of a certain D Parekh on it. It contained clothes.
The officials called up Parekh, who turned out to be Deepak Parekh — the chairman of HDFC Bank. He said the bag belonged to his daughter-in-law, Alice who had returned from London on Sunday by Jet Airways. Alice is married to Parekh’s son, Aditya.
“After she landed in Mumbai,” he says, adding, “she did not found one of her bags and complained to the airline who told her they would find the bag and deliver it.”
What puzzles them is how the bag came to the terminal.
“If some passenger took the bag by mistake, he or she could have returned it to the airline or informed them on the same day,” says the official, adding, “How can they come inside and leave the bag in the terminal just like that?”
16/08/07 Naveeta Singh/Mumbai Mirror

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Categories: Airports Aug 2007, Safety Aug 2007