Wannabe stowaway caught near parked Spicejet

New Delhi: On Sunday around 12.30 am, the technical staff of the Spicejet at the Indira Gandhi International Airport found a 16-year-old boy hiding inside the “valley” of a Spicejet aircraft’s wheel. CISF officers interrogated the boy, a resident of Palam village, for more than two hours. “He seems to be mentally challenged,” said an officer.
The boy entered the airport after scaling the perimeter wall near the construction site of terminal-3. For the next two hours, he roamed around unnoticed, till the Spicejet staff spotted him. Senior CISF officers said there are very few lights on the perimeter wall and that they have repeatedly written to DIAL about installing lights in the area.
“The boy said he wanted to go to Dubai and someone had misguided him saying he should sit near the airplane wheel and try and sneak into the cargo compartment of the aircraft,” said a senior Spicejet official. The CISF has handed over the boy to the Delhi Police. The Palam police have registered a case against him.
It is, however, not a one-off incident. On February 14, an 18-year-old boy was found loitering around the hangar of Aviation Research Centre, one of the most sensitive areas of the airport where aircraft on which latest research is being conducted are parked.
03/02/08 Sobhana K/Delhi Newsline

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Categories: Airports Mar 2008, Safety Mar 2008, SpiceJet Mar 2008