4 AI officials suspended for security lapse

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, OCT. 31. Air India has suspended four senior officials in connection with the security fiasco resulting in two Afghans traveling to Heathrow by its London-bound flight on Sunday without tickets and travel documents.

Incidentally, the airlines decided to act only after the Union Civil Aviation Minister took a serious view of the incident which came just as the Ministry launched the Aviation Security Week.

Those suspended pending an internal inquiry are the general manager (commercial). Others placed under suspension are the duty manager, commercial, senior manager (security) and duty manager (security).

Sources said the two passengers along with two other Afghan nationals had, on reaching London, asked the British immigration authorities for political asylum. All of them are being questioned by the British authorities.

- AFP

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