Birds create a flutter at Sahar airport

Mumbai: A potential bird flu threat was averted at the international airport in Mumbai on Wednesday when a man, travelling from Bahrain on the Gulf Air flight 056, arrived at the customs counter amid the loud squawking of parrots coming from his luggage.
Customs department officials, in consultation with wildlife authorities, refused to allow the exotic birds being brought into India thus and sent Mohammad Naushad packing along with his luggage-that included 40 Australian parrots-back to Bahrain on board the same airplane.
The customs officials, after deliberating the course of action, figured that the birds would probably not survive till the next flight back scheduled for Bahrain later on Wednesday night, and hence directed Naushad to return to Bahrain on the same plane that left within a couple of hours.
16/02/08 Renni Abraham/Daily News & Analysis

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Categories: airports Feb 2008, Safety Feb 2008