Security breached on PM’s special flight

New Delhi: Air-India One’s security has been breached. The security agencies have reported a serious lapse on board when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited Germany in April. As the finger points to A-I officials, who allegedly pilfered liquor bottles by breaking a sealed cabinet, the airline's security officer is untraceable. The Civil Aviation Ministry has come down on the “irresponsible behaviour” of A-I management.
On April 24, after attending the Indo-German Business Summit in Hanover, Singh was flying to Berlin. As the A-I flight was readying for takeoff from the Hanover airport, the Special Protection Group detected an anomaly: the security seal of one of the cabinets on board had been broken. This amounted to a serious violation on a VVIP flight. Nothing was planted in the cabinet but some bottles of whisky had gone missing.When the baggage of A-I officials and crew were checked during the X-ray scanning, it was found that 14 of them were carrying 29 bottles of whisky.
Civil Aviation secretary Ajay Prasad has come down strongly on the delay on the part of the Air-India management in reporting the issue.
10/07/06 Arun Kumar/Hindustan Times

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