2 passengers had fake passports on ill-fated Dubai-Mangalore flight

Bangalore: Two passengers were travelling on fake passports aboard the ill-fated Air India Express Dubai-Mangalore flight IX-812 that killed 158 passengers on May 22 after crash landing at the Bajpe airport in Mangalore, the court of inquiry looking into the crash has been told.
Chief of the district crime investigation bureau Venkatesh Prasanna, who deposed before the court in Mangalore on Thursday, said Abdul Samad of Kochipalli of Kannur district in Kerala, had travelled with a passport (number: F 0606599) that originally belonged to Shanavas Vellarathangal of Arakkinar village in Kozhikode district of Kerala, and Mohammad Ashfaq travelled with a passport (number: F 36468093), belonging to Gonzales Marion Ignatius of Vikhroli (West), Mumbai. Both of them perished in the crash, he said.
The police had lodged an official complaint with the passport office of Kerala and Mumbai. Prasanna said 11 other passengers were also reported to have had fake passport but their passports had been destroyed and their bodies had been charred.
20/08/10 M Raghuram/Daily News & Analysis

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