Random theory fails to check flight security

Mumbai: You risk your life almost every time you board a flight, because sky marshals monitor them only randomly.
The need to deploy them regularly has resurfaced after passenger Sanjay Malik claimed to have a bomb on a Delhi-Mumbai Indigo aircraft (6E 181) and demanded the flight be diverted to Pakistan yesterday.
In the absence of sky marshals, passengers had to overpower Sanjay.
Captain Ashok Omar radioed the Mumbai Air Traffic Control about the potential threat at 11.45 am, 15 minutes before landing. It has been revealed that Sanjay is mentally disturbed.
Aviation expert Vipul Saxena said, "The fact that terrorists can be anywhere has increased the threat to passengers.
Sky marshals should be made mandatory for all flights."
After the hijack incident in Kandahar in 1999, it had been decided that all flights to sensitive areas like J&K would have sky marshals.
A passenger on board Delhi-Mumbai Indigo flight created a scare minutes before it landed in Mumbai claiming there was a bomb on board and demanding that the flight be diverted to Pakistan.
Sanjay Mallik traveling on board Indigo flight 6E 181 was arrested, by the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) officials manning airport security, immediately after the flight landed in Mumbai at 11.45 a.m.
24/07/09 Aditya Anand/MiD DAY

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Categories: Indigo Airlines Jul 2009, Safety Jul 2009