Drunk man caught sleeping in plane engine

New Delhi: The IGI Airport woke up to a bizarre Saturday morning. An allegedly drunk man was found sleeping inside the jet engine of an Indian Airlines Airbus A-320 when the airline staff went to check the plane for its first flight of the day two hours before scheduled departure at 5.50am.
The young man was quizzed by the airline security, but was too inebriated to talk. All he said was that he reached the airport in a truck and then went to sleep behind the biggest fan on a sizzling Delhi night.
The man was spotted when IA's engineering and security team climbed up the ladder to prepare the plane to fly as IC 869 to Raipur and Nagpur. While approaching the aircraft door around 4am, a team member saw a leg dangling from the rear of the engine.
The man was pulled out of the engine. The security team roughed him up a bit and all he said was that he came inside the airport sitting on top of a white truck. He then wandered to the operational area and being sleepy, chose the big engine as his bed for the night. The man was handed over to the security agencies, said sources. A senior CISF official said the matter was being investigated.
28/03/10 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India

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