Stranded for four days at Muscat airport, Indian flies home finally

Muscat: An Indian expatriate living in Damam, Saudi Arabia was stranded at the Muscat International Airport for nearly 4 days after having lost his passport but was finally able to fly home when the airline staff recovered his passport after some round of checks in their aircraft across various sectors.
Everything went smooth for Mansoor Puthoor Parangotil hailing from Kozhikode district of Kerala when he took off from Damam International Airport on June 18 for a journey via Muscat and Mumbai before reaching his native town until he realised that his passport was left behind inside seat pouch of the person sitting in the front.
Security officials couldn’t permit him return to the aircraft as it was against the civil aviation law but was assured that his passport will be reaching at the Gate No 19 before he could board the next flight to Mumbai. He was then asked to wait at the Gate No 4 where his passport was hoped to be delivered.foreign jun
“I couldn’t get my passport back even after the next flight took off to Mumbai as I was seeing from the waiting area and it continued till Thursday, the fourth day of his worries”, a panicked Mansoor told Observer on his Oman GSM which he borrowed from a cleaner inside the airport.
23/06/12 Oman Observer

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